Assam assembly elections: Congress hopes alliance will help add 20 seats | Guwahati News
In the 2016 assembly polls, the Congress ended with 26 seats, with AIUDF taking away an important share of anti-BJP votes. GUWAHATI: The Congress-led “grand alliance” will first look to consolidate the constituencies where vote division with the AIUDF had cost them in the last assembly election. Party insiders said the number would be about 20 seats. Even as the seat-sharing agreement is yet to be done, the tussle for tickets between minority leaders of Congress and AIUDF in selected constituencies, especially in lower Assam and Barak Valley districts, may put the alliance in a fix. Nev...