Congress’s Jitendra Singh during a press meet at Rajib Bhawan in Guwahati on Friday
GUWAHATI: The BJP and Congress, which are leading the Mitrajot and Mahajot respectively in the state election, were confident of winning and forming the next government in Assam. But most exit polls have predicted the return of the saffron alliance.
BJP state president Ranjeet Kumar Dass said the BJP-led alliance will win at least 80 seats in the 126-member assembly. Health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma skipped a media query about whether the BJP leadership would choose incumbent chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal or him, saying ‘an Assamese’ would be the chief minister. Congress in-charge Jitendra Singh, on the other hand, said the exit polls would be proved wrong like the Bihar assembly election results.
GUWAHATI: The BJP and Congress, which are respectively leading the Mitrajot and Mahajot alliance in the state, were confident of winning and forming the next government in Assam even though most exit polls had predicted the return of the saffron alliance.
BJP state president Ranjeet Kumar Dass said the BJP-led alliance will win at least 80 seats in the 126-member assembly.
Health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma skipped the query about whether the BJP leadership would choose incumbent chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal or him, saying ‘an Assamese’ would be the chief minister.
Congress in-charge Jitendra Singh, on the other hand, said the exit polls would be proved wrong like the Bihar assembly election results.
Updated Apr 12, 2021 · 12:53 pm Bodoland People s Front chief Hagrama Mohilary. | Hagrama Mohilary/ Facebook
The Bodoland People’s Front, an ally of the Congress in Assam, has flown party members who contested the state Assembly polls to an undisclosed location amid fears that the Bharatiya Janata Party would try to buy their loyalties, the
Hindustan Times reported on Sunday.
“I am not sure where they [the candidates] are now,” said senior Bodoland People’s Front leader Pramila Rani Brahma, who contested from the Kokrajhar East seat. “But the candidates are outside Assam, that’s confirmed. I am not going anywhere.”
An unidentified leader said that 10 Bodoland People’s Front leaders were taken to Bhutan on April 10 and would likely stay there till May 2.
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GUWAHATI: Neither the BJP-led Mitrajoot, nor the Congress-led Mahajoot is a happy-go-lucky political formation in this Assembly poll in the State.
Though both the political formations claiming to win 100+…, yet the situation on the ground is something different.
The results of the 2016 Assembly poll in the State throw much light on the electoral battle in the present realigned political alliances in the State.
In 2016, the BJP-led alliance had AGP, BPF and a few smaller regional parties with it. On the contrary, the Congress and the AIUDF did fight that poll separately. In some LACs, the Congress, AIUDF and the BJP-AGP alliance were logged in triangular fight. In most of such contests, the BJP-AGP alliance reaped the benefits.