Senior Congress leaders address a press conference after the four-hour meeting in Guwahati on Wednesday
GUWAHATI: Assam Congress on Wednesday called all its MPs and MLAs for a closed-door meeting here to chalk out the party’s strategy to counter BJP in the 2021 Assam elections amid reports that some MLAs and senior party leaders may join the saffron party when Union home minister Amit Shah visits Assam on December 26.
Reports are doing the rounds that two MLAs from upper Assam constituencies of Golaghat and Sarupathar Ajanta Neog and Roselina Tirkey, respectively will join BJP soon. Neog, a powerful Congress leader from the upper Assam, did not attend the four-hour meeting held in a city hotel.
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GUWAHATI: Assam Congress on Wednesday called all its MPs and MLAs for a closed-door meeting here to chalk out the party’s strategy to counter BJP in the 2021 Assam elections amid reports that some MLAs and senior party leaders may join the saffron party when Union home minister Amit Shah visits Assam on December 26.
Reports are doing the rounds that two MLAs from upper Assam constituencies of Golaghat and Sarupathar Ajanta Neog and Roselina Tirkey, respectively will join BJP soon. Neog, a powerful Congress leader from the upper Assam, did not attend the four-hour meeting held in a city hotel.
BJP sweeps Tiwa council polls The saffron party won 34 of the 36 seats with Asom Gana Parishad and Congress winning a seat each
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday swept the Tiwa Autonomous Council (TAC) elections in Assam but the outcome once again established the free fall of the Congress, which could manage only a lone seat.
The BJP has won 34 of the 36 seats with Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and Congress winning a seat each in the polls held on Friday. The council is spread over four central Assam districts Nagaon, Morigaon, Hojai and Kamrup Metropolitan districts.
This is the BJP’s second victory in a week after having taken over the Bodoland Territiorial Council, spread over four lower Assam districts, through a post-poll coalition with the United people’s Liberal Party and the Gana Suraksha Party.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday appointed six All India Congress Committee (AICC) secretaries attached to the general secretaries of Assam and Kerala with immediate effect. Anirudh Singh, MLA, Vikas Upadhyay, MLA and Prithviraj Prabhakar Sathe have been appointed from Assam while P Viswanathan, Ex-MP, Ivan D Souza, Ex MLC and PV Mohan have been appointed from Kerala. The party appreciates the contributions of Joint Secretaries Haripal Rawat and Dr. Sanjay Choudhary, the notification issued by the party read.
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