Exit Polls Predict Return Of BJP In Assam But With Reduced Numbers
Almost all gave the BJP-led NDA, which comprises AGP and United People’s Party Liberal more than 70 of the 126 seats on offer.
Dipankar Roy 29 April 2021, Last Updated at 10:38 pm PTI Dipankar Roy 2021-04-29T22:36:30+05:30 Exit Polls Predict Return Of BJP In Assam But With Reduced Numbers outlookindia.com 2021-04-29T22:38:51+05:30
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Several exit polls on Thursday indicated the return of the NDA to power in Assam albeit with reduced numbers.
Almost all gave the BJP-led NDA, which also comprises Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and United People’s Party Liberal, a party based in the Bodoland Territorial Region, more than 70 of the 126 seats on offer.
Assam Polls: Badruddin Ajmal leads the All India United Democratic Front. (File)
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Congress is leading the Grand Alliance or Mahajoth in Assam
Assam will vote for a new government in three phases starting March 27
Guwahati, Assam:
The Congress, which is leading the Grand Alliance or
Mahajoth in Assam that has Maulana Badaruddin Ajmal-led AIUDF as a key ally, has claimed that a
Lakshman Rekha has be drawn to avoid communal posturing . The AIUDF (All India United Democratic Front) is only one of our allies. We are seven other progressive parties in the alliance - the Anchalik Gana Parishad, Left and the BPF. Many more are coming. Had we joined any communal force, they would not have come. Even if the AIUDF creates any communal posturing in the future, we will not be with them. That is why a
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Crowd during a political rally in Dhekiajuli, Assam.
Assam and West Bengal are neighbouring states, but their politics is entirely different. What is more interesting is that the politics of the lower and upper Assam also are poles apart from each other. Their voters may act like the people from two separate states, what may suit the Brahmaputra valley (upper Assam) may not satisfy the Barak valley (lower Assam). And the same goes for the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) which has charged up the political atmosphere ahead of the assembly elections.
Though the contest this time seems three-cornered in Assam - with regional entities also forming an alliance - two major forces, the Congress and BJP, are at loggerheads over the Citizenship Amendment Act. Rahul Gandhi, kicking off his Assam campaign with a rally at Sivasagar, has vowed to block the law. While Union Home Minister Amit Shah has categorically said that the government would implement CAA once the vaccin