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Assam polls: Sushmita Dev annoyed with seat allocation, Congress denies rumours of her resignation ANI | Updated: Mar 06, 2021 17:30 IST
By Siddharth Sharma
Dispur (Assam) [India], March 6 (ANI): Congress leader and former Member of Parliament Sushmita Dev has been left annoyed with the seat-sharing method employed in the party s alliance with All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) in Assam ahead of the assembly polls.
According to sources, Sushmita, who is the president of the All India Mahila Congress (AIMC), is upset with the seat allocation to AIUDF in Silchar, her own constituency and also about the selection of candidates in Silchar.
She has also expressed her objection regarding the consideration of an ex-MLA from one of the assembly seats. Sushmita also approached Congress state in-charge Bhawar Jitendra Singh over the issue, as per sources.
All India Mahila Congress president Sushmita Dev (L) and Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi(R).
SILCHAR: Dissatisfied with the Congress-led grand alliance’s seat-sharing policy, All India Mahila Congress president Sushmita Dev on Saturday sent a letter to party president Sonia Gandhi expressing her desire to resign from her post and quit the party.
Dev is unhappy about Congress giving away a majority of the 15 seats in Assam’s Barak Valley to its ally AIUDF to contest in the polls that will be held in phases on March 27, April 1 and April 6.
She flew down to New Delhi to express her grievances before the party chief. The former Silchar MP reportedly opposed the candidature of former party MLA Rumi Nath from Barkhala.
A media report said that Dev, who s the daughter of influential Congress leader and former Union minister Santosh Mohan Dev, has resigned from her post. However, the Congress leaders in Guwahati and Delhi strongly denied the report.Acco
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Congress workers during party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra s public meeting, ahead of the State assembly polls, in Tezpur.
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Party’s Mahila unit chief Sushmita Dev expresses disappointment over selection
Assam Congress chief Ripun Bora, a former BJP MP Ram Prasad Sarma and son of former union minister Pawan Singh Ghatowar were among the first list of 40 Congress candidates released by the party late on Saturday.
While Mr. Bora, a sitting Rajya Sabha member, will be contesting from the Gohpur constituency, Mr Sarma, who had joined the Congress after representing the Tezpur Lok Sabha seat on a BJP ticket, is the party candidate from Barchalla.