Rahul Gandhi has claimed that there is absolute financial and media dominance by the BJP.
New Delhi:
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi slammed the Election Commission on Saturday with a two-word takedown of the poll body on Twitter amid a huge controversy over officials transporting an electronic voting machine (EVM) in a BJP candidate s car in Assam and a reduction of campaign ban duration on a senior BJP leader. Election Commission , Mr Gandhi tweeted in a direct attack on the poll body that has since suspended four officials and ordered repolling in one station in Assam s Ratabari after the purported video of the EVM being carried in a BJP leader s vehicle was circulated widely on social media.
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G23 leader Manish Tewari reaches out to Congress leaders in Assam
Kangkan Kalita | TNN | Updated: Apr 1, 2021, 23:39 IST
GUWAHATI: Congress’s ‘dissident’ top brass sent a unity message on the second phase polling day in Assam on Thursday. G23 leader and MP Manish Tewari reaching out to senior Congress leaders to give a final push to the party campaign for the all-important last phase election slated for April 6.
Though Congress veterans and G23 leaders, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Kapil Sibal and Manish Tewari, were not listed as Congress star campaigners for the Assam election, Tewari arrived at the state Congress headquarters here to lend more muscle to the grand alliance campaign. The mahajot is expecting its best performance in the third phase, where they are especially banking upon Muslim-inhabited constituencies to ride the crest of anti-BJP sentiments revolving around ‘Hindutva politics’.
The EC also sent a notice to Himanta Biswa Sarma whose remarks against BPF s Hagrama Mohilary were found to be prima facie violating the model code of conduct
A CORRESPONDENT DUDHNOI:
Hagrama Mohilary Criticises BJP: Former BTC chief and Bodoland People s Front (BPF) supremo Hagrama Mohilary, while campaigning for INC candidate Jadab Swargiary, said that this time the Dudhnoi constituency would see the end of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In fact, he added that there would be no BJP in Dispur this time and a Congress-led alliance would form the government in the State.
A huge election meeting of the Indian National Congress (INC) was held on Thursday at Dudhnoi Public Ground. Speaking at the meeting, Mohilary said that the BJP government divided people on religious lines by creating discrimination among castes and communities. But the Congress party was looking to remove the discrimination among all castes and communities in Assam, he said. The BJP government has been playing with the emotions of the Rabha people by saying that they will include Rabha Hasong in the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution for the last five years. But thi