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Assam Assembly elections | Welfare measures not a decisive factor
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Not many households benefited from schemes launched by the State government
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Not many households benefited from schemes launched by the State government
Contrary to popular wisdom and what was reported in some sections of the media, the Lokniti-CSDS post-poll survey data does not find welfare schemes to have been a decisive factor for the National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) performance in the Assam Assembly election. The survey indicates that not many households benefited from the State government’s welfare programmes. This was highlighted when the names of at least nine schemes launched by the State government were read out to the respondents upon being asked if they or a household member had benefited from any of these schemes, nearly h
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