Stakes higher for Mahajot in final phase in Assam
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April 05, 2021 22:24 IST
Migrant Muslims call the shots in many of the Assembly seats going to the poll in this phase
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Gearing up: Officials travelling towards their polling stations on the eve of third phase of Assam Assembly election in Kamrup district on Monday.
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Migrant Muslims call the shots in many of the Assembly seats going to the poll in this phase
When Mohammed Sanaullah, a retired soldier, casts his vote at the Koloikash Primary School under Chaygaon Assembly constituency on Tuesday, his mind will perhaps be on a faraway “hellhole” he had spent a week in, almost two years ago.
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.
Battleground Assam: Key constituencies to look out for in the last phase
Battleground Assam: Key constituencies to look out for in the last phase
By Kumar Gaurav
Guwahati (Assam) [India], April 5 (ANI): Assam is all set to go into the last phase of polling on Tuesday. This phase will decide the fate of 337 candidates across 40 constituencies of 12 districts in the state, including the senior minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Hemanta Biswa Sarma in the Jalukbari constituency.
There are a total of 12 female candidates and 325 male candidates in the fray, whose fates will be decided by 79,19,641 general electors in the third phase. Of these, 40,11,539 are males, 39,07,963 females and 139 are other genders. There are also 24,460 are service voters.
A bridge has become an unusual issue in a polarised part of Assam
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AIUDF chief says he initiated the project whose foundation stone Modi laid in February
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Border Security Force (BSF) personnel keep up vigil along the Indo-Bangladesh international border in Dhubri district of Assam. File
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AIUDF chief says he initiated the project whose foundation stone Modi laid in February
A bridge to be India’s longest has become an unusual issue in a polarised part of Assam often synonymous with “illegal immigrants”.
Electoral politics in Assam since the 1970s has invariably been spun around the narrative of ‘Bangladeshis’ threatening to take over the State. Western Assam’s Dhubri district, from which South Salmara-Mankachar district was carved out in 2016, has been the peg of this storyline.
Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi waves at his party supporters during a rally in Dibrugarh district. (PTI Photo)
GUWAHATI: Ahead of the third and final phase of the assembly elections, Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi was confident that the results will signal the return of the old trend of Assam giving mandate to a new party every five years. Except for his father Tarun Gogoi’s 15-year unbroken stint, Assam hasn’t given two consecutive terms to any party after 1985.
However, Congress has been missing their tallest leader even though Gogoi says his father’s memory has endured and will be a significant factor even in this election. “As we travelled across the state, we realised that he is respected everywhere. People were still talking about him,” said Gogoi who is Congress s deputy leader in the Lok Sabha.