BJP, allies face vote share challenge in Assam polls
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March 08, 2021 02:03 IST
Minus the percentage of votes its former ally BPF garnered, the BJP-led alliance’s 2016 vote share dips by 3.94% to 37.65%
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Minus the percentage of votes its former ally BPF garnered, the BJP-led alliance’s 2016 vote share dips by 3.94% to 37.65%
Numbers can be deceiving. But if one goes by the vote share of parties in the 2016 Assembly polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies approach mandate 2021 behind the Congress-led
Mahajot or grand alliance.
The BJP had ahead of the three-phase polls announced its “Mission 100”, targeting at least 100 of Assam’s 126 Assembly seats. The party and its two regional allies – the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) – had achieved two more seats than its “Mission 84” in the 2016 polls.
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2 ex-Cong ministers, 11 new faces, 1 Muslim in BJP 1st list for Assam
By IANS| Published: 6th March 2021 4:21 am IST
Guwahati, March 5 : The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Assam, which on Friday announced its first list of 70 candidates for the first two phases of Assembly elections in the state, has given tickets to two former Congress ministers, 11 new faces and a lone Muslim candidate.
Former Congress ministers Ajanta Neog and Gautam Roy got BJP tickets to contest from their old seats of Golaghat and Katighora, respectively. Neog and Gowala had joined the saffron party in December last year.
Former Congress legislator Rajdeep Gowala, who was elected to the Assembly after winning in the 2016 elections from Lakhipur, has been denied a ticket by the BJP this time.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had visited the tea gardens in Assam during her visit to the state.
New Delhi:
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Union Minister for Development of North Eastern Region, Jitendra Singh, on Friday ridiculed Congress general secretary for Uttar Pradesh Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, stating that her recent visit to poll-bound Assam looked more like a film shoot as she plucked leaves at a tea estate there in the off-season. Priyanka Gandhi is choosing tea leaves in the off-season. It seems as if a film is being shot, the BJP leader told ANI on Friday. Recently, Gandhi had visited the tea gardens in Assam and got photographed while plucking tea leaves with a basket on her head.
Saturday, Mar 6, 2021 (10:03 pm)
Udalguri: The pre-poll dynamics of Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) and United People s Party Liberal(UPPL) in regard of seat sharing of the 12 Assembly seats of the four districts of the Bodo belt have not gone well with the ticket aspirants and party workers of a section of UPPL party in Udalguri district who have expressed resentment and staged protest demonstration against the BJP and burnt effigies of NEDA convenor Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma; BJP National General Secretary and Mangaldoi Lok Sabha MP,Dilip Saikia and Rajya Sabha MP cum BJP candidate of Paneri LAC , Biswajit Daimari at Bhergaon in Udalguri district on Saturday. The party workers renting slogans against the BJP accusing them of playing power centric politics have demanded that UPPL must project candidates in Paneri and Kalaigaon LAC in a friendly contest with BJP taking into consideration the grassroot suppprt of UPPL in the constituencies.
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