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A bridge has become an unusual issue in a polarised part of Assam Updated: Updated: AIUDF chief says he initiated the project whose foundation stone Modi laid in February Share Article AAA Border Security Force (BSF) personnel keep up vigil along the Indo-Bangladesh international border in Dhubri district of Assam. File | Photo Credit: Ritu Raj Konwar AIUDF chief says he initiated the project whose foundation stone Modi laid in February A bridge to be India’s longest has become an unusual issue in a polarised part of Assam often synonymous with “illegal immigrants”. Electoral politics in Assam since the 1970s has invariably been spun around the narrative of ‘Bangladeshis’ threatening to take over the State. Western Assam’s Dhubri district, from which South Salmara-Mankachar district was carved out in 2016, has been the peg of this storyline. ....
A CORRESPONDENT DHUBRI: Though there are seven candidates in the fray in the historic Gauripur Assembly constituency, one of the five LACs of Dhubri district, a triangular fight among two former legislators and a sitting legislator appears on the cards. Two-time MLA from Gauripur Md Mohibul Haque, after being denied ticket by the Congress, is contesting as an independent candidate from Gauripur. Haque first became a legislator on Congress ticket in 1991. However, in 2006 he was denied party ticket and he contested as an independent candidate and won. Soon after winning, he joined the Congress as an associate member. This time too, Haque was denied ticket due to the grand alliance between the Congress, All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) and four other parties. The ticket for this LAC was given to AIUDF s sitting legislator Nizanur Rahman. ....