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Guwahati: Left leaders and CPM activists jailed during the Emergency have decided to reject the Rs 15,000 monthly pension to be given by the BJP gover.
Sitaram Yechury at a press meet in Guwahati on Sunday
GUWAHATI: CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury has said that ‘binary’ tactics of polarizing Hindus and Muslims won’t work in the Assam election.
Yechury was confident of a Congress-led Mahajot government in the state as he addressed the media here on Sunday after concluding a tour of Sarbhog constituency, which the Left party is trying hard to get back from the BJP.
“The BJP calculation is simply wrong. In Assam, all Muslims and Hindus are not on two opposite poles. Out of the 20 lakh people, who were left out of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), the majority were Hindus. Why has there been no solution to it in the last two years? They (BJP) survive only in creating binaries between Hindus-Muslims,” Yechury said.
Assam Assembly Polls: BJP State Chief May Leave His Own Seat for a Safer Bet
Word has it that BJP s Ranjit Dass may contest from Patacharkuchi this time around, leaving behind his traditionally held Sarbhog assembly segment, anticipating electoral headwinds in the ensuing elections.
BJP Assam state unit chief Ranjit Dass. Photo: Official Facebook page.
Politics18/Feb/2021
Sarbhog (Assam): On December 16 last year, Pabindra Deka, the MLA from Patacharkuchi, joined the newly floated regional outfit Asom Jatiya Parishad (AJP) after resigning from the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP). Deka was a founding member of AGP, which is currently part of the ruling alliance in Assam. With assembly elections due in two months, such departures are otherwise quite natural.