Social media key to UPPL’s victory in Assam election
Apart from other reasons, social media is believed to have played a major role in the spectacular performance of the United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL) in the Assam elections.
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GUWAHATI: Apart from other reasons, social media is believed to have played a major role in the spectacular performance of the United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL) in the Assam elections.
The campaign was led by Vivek Bansal and his team members. The team had tried to reach out to especially the young voters. The UPPL had an aggressive election campaign which was led by party chief Pramod Bodo.
Assam BJP dissolves minority cell post polls
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Move comes after all its candidates lost
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Move comes after all its candidates lost
The Assam unit of the BJP has dissolved its minority cell after none of its nine Muslim candidates managed to win a seat in the recently concluded Assembly election.
60 of 126 seats won
The BJP had won 60 of 126 seats in the State. Its two regional allies bagged 15.
“The Sankhyaloghu Morcha [minority cell] and all its units have been dissolved,” said the party’s state general-secretary, Rajdeep Roy, on Wednesday.
Among the losers in the Muslim-dominated seats was Deputy Speaker Aminul Haque Laskar, who had won the Sonai seat in Barak Valley in 2016. He lost the seat to Karim Uddin Barbhuiya of All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) by 19,654 votes.
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Once again, religious identity emerged as a determining factor in the State
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BJP supporters at an election rally in Sualkuchi, Kamrup (Metro) district of Assam. File photo
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Once again, religious identity emerged as a determining factor in the State
After wresting Assam from the Congress in 2016, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was able to retain the State in the recently concluded Assembly election, thus strengthening its eastern footprint. In 2016, the BJP successfully consolidated Hindu votes in a State where elections were largely governed by the multiple ethnicities it hosts. The story after five years remains more or less the same, with religious identity yet again emerging as one of the key determinants for electors, albeit on a slightly muted level. Of course, the Lokniti-CSDS post-poll survey data indicate relatively high satisfaction with both the Central and State governments among voters and the absence
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As the BJP-led alliance won the polls, the state’s deep communal divide manifested itself in the result.
The Bharatiya Janata Party, not surprisingly, retained the state of Assam with a comfortable majority of seats (75) in the 126-seat house. However, this number was lower than its 2016 performance, when its alliance won 86 seats. In fact, the BJP-Asom Gana Parishad combine has kept losing a bit of ground over the past three elections, including the 2019 General Election.
Comparing alliances performance is not easy because their composition changes over time.
In 2016 and 2019, the Bodoland People’s Front was part of the National Democratic Alliance along with the BJP. In 2021, it contested alongside the Congress. This time, the Congress also entered an alliance with the All India United Democratic Front, which had contested on its own in previous elections. This year, the Congress coalition included eigh