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STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: The BJP had the last laugh in the Assam Assembly poll by getting a 33.21 per cent share of votes against a 29.67 per cent share of Congress. While the BJP polled 63,84,538 votes by 93 candidates, Congress polled 57,03,341 votes by 95 candidates.
BJP s ally AGP got a share of 7.91 per cent of votes. It polled 15,19,777 votes in all. The regional party contested 29 seats.
Congress ally AIUDF got a share of 9.29 per cent of votes, the total votes being 17,86,551. The party contested 20 seats.
Another Congress ally BPF got a share of 3.39 per cent of votes, the total votes being 6,51,073. It contested 12 seats.
STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: The AJP (Assam Jatiya Parishad), Raijar Dal and the AGM (Anchalik Gana Morcha) have failed to cut the ice to make their presence felt as alternative regional forces in the State. The results of the Assembly poll have proved it.
Among the three newly-floated regional parties, only the Raijar Dal has won a seat in the candidature of its president Akhil Gogoi.
It has come to light that the anti-CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) agitation spearheaded by the AJP in the State had no impact on the voters of the State. The Raijar Dal and the AGM also lent their support to the agitation.
Jyoti Prasad Chaliha
jyotiprasad11@rediffmail.com)
The fledgling regional parties mainly the Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) and Raijar Dal (RD) in Assam naturally raised high hope and optimism that these two parties will be able to safeguard the regional entity of composite Assamese nation which has been threatened in recent time by some overriding aggressive measures adopted by the ruling BJP-led NDA government at the Centre with tacit and overt support of the Assam government. In this respect mention may be made inter alia of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
But certain acts and statements made by the leaders of these two parties which lacked political pragmatism and maturity are belying the hope and expectation generated in the minds of the people. Even to a novice having preliminary ideas of demographic structure of the population in Assam, it is crystal clear that only an absolute unity of all anti-BJP parties can think of throwing a formidable challenge to the ru
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