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Explained: What Post-Poll Survey By Lokniti-CSDS Tells Us About Recent Assembly Elections In Assam, Kerala
by Swarajya Staff - May 12, 2021 12:30 AM
Himanta Biswa Sarma and Pinarayi Vijayan
Snapshot
The survey concluded that the local issues were of paramount importance for the voters in the Assembly elections.
A special post-poll survey conducted by the Lokniti-CSDS for
The Hindu shines light on the electoral trends in the states of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.
The survey concluded that the local issues were of paramount importance for the voters in the Assembly elections.
âEach of the surveyed States had specific local variables that swayed and determined the choices of the respondents. Clearly, the voters were determining their electoral choice for State and national elections distinctly,â
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
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New Delhi, May 9
Himanta Biswa Sarma (52) was today unanimously elected as the leader of the BJP legislature party in the presence of central observers, Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and general secretary Arun Singh.
Tomar made the official announcement following the meeting in Guwahati. Tomar said no other name was proposed and that there was complete consensus on Sarma, who will now take the oath as the next Chief Minister of Assam tomorrow, 10 days after the party registered its one and only solo victory in the just-concluded elections to four states and a union territory.
Had PM backing
Sources say Himanta Biswa Sarma was backed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah for all his troubleshooting, hard work and political acumen that helped the BJP expand in Assam and other parts of the Northeast.