Can Suvendu Become Bengalâs Himanta? The Answer Is A Qualified âYesâ
by Jaideep Mazumdar - May 11, 2021 11:54 AM
Suvendu Adhikari.
Snapshot
The BJP central leadership must give Adhikari a free hand in steering the party, and empower him to lead the party to victory in 2026, if not earlier.
The election of Nandigram MLA Suvendu Adhikari as head of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislature party has enthused a large number of embattled BJP cadres and supporters who have been subjected to horrific atrocities for over a week now.
A number of BJP functionaries and supporters are pinning their hopes on Adhikari to put up a strong resistance to the Trinamool both inside the assembly and outside it.
Mission accomplished
By becoming CM, Himanta Biswa Sarma has proved a point to Congress
From being the champion of a distinct Assamese cultural identity in the volatile labyrinth of the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU), Himanta Biswa Sarma’s recent anointment as the Chief Minister of a BJP-led coalition in the State completes a chequered political journey. Sarma’s ascension follows a carefully crafted victory in the recent Assembly elections in which he balanced the advance of a larger Hindutva project through the National Register of Citizens (NRC) with the powerful sub-national sentiment in Assam that first drew him into political life. He doused the Congress’s hope that the NRC would alienate the BJP’s voter base because it excludes a large number of Bangladeshi Hindus by a strategy that combined aggressive welfarism with the promise that the NRC would be “re-verified”. In simple terms, what the promise conveyed was that the Bangladeshi Hindus, who have been supp
NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leaders questioned the party’s decision to ally with AIUDF in Assam in the recent elections, saying sensitive issues should have been determined by keeping the national perspective in view, suggesting that such alliances only spark or consolidate a counter-polarisation.
The remarks by two seniors, Digvijaya Singh and Ghulam Nabi Azad, a leading member of the G-23 group of dissenters, are a rewind to the post-2014 diagnosis led by Sonia Gandhi and A K Antony that BJP’s painting of Congress as a “pro-minority” party was a factor behind the Lok Sabha rout.
The meeting of the Congress Working Committee on Monday saw Singh slamming the tie-up with AIUDF. West Bengal in-charge Jitin Prasada said ally Left’s decision to rope in the newly-launched Muslim outfit ISF was a bad decision which hurt Congress.
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GUWAHATI: Five-time MLA and NDA’s northeast troubleshooter Himanta Biswa Sarma was named Assam s 15th chief minister on Sunday, a day after he and incumbent Sarbananda Sonowal were called to Delhi ahead of the BJP legislature party meeting in Guwahati that put its seal on the high command s choice.
Sarma, who quit Congress in 2015 to join BJP after a much-publicised succession rift with his mentor and then CM Tarun Gogoi, made the cut after almost a week of speculation over whether the 52-yearold former Supreme Court advocate would pip his predecessor Sonowal at the post. His elevation, seen as an acknowledgement of his contribution towards BJP s growth in Assam and the northeast as well as a recognition of his support among MLAs and his fierce ambition to take the helm, came at Sonowal’s cost.