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With the recent notification of rules for the implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA — the passage of which had rocked the Northeast in 2019 — there are loud voices of dissent against it, but this time only in Assam and Tripura.
Assam Trinamool Congress chief Ripun Bora Wednesday said the likelihood of aseat-sharing arrangement with the INDIA alliance in Assam is slim and the party is preparing to go ahead with fielding four of its own candidates for the Lok Sabha polls.
Even as the BJP Saturday announced 11 candidates for Assam’s 14 seats for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the wait for the Congress to declare its nominees is only getting longer as last year’s delimitation process weighs heavily on all its three sitting MPs from the state.
In a span of just two weeks, the Assam Congress has seen two of its three working presidents – Kamalakhya Dey Purkayastha and Rana Goswami – and one of its MLAs, Basanta Das, jump ship. While Das and Purkayastha declared their support to the Himanta Biswa Sarma-led BJP government, Goswami formally joined the BJP. CM Sarma has claimed that all the Congress MLAs barring a few Muslim legislators have been in touch with him and would join the BJP before the 2026 Assembly elections. With the pressure piling on the Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Assam Congress president Bhupen Borah spoke to The Indian Express at length about the situation and his party’s plans to deal with it. Excerpts:
In a span of two weeks, the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) has lost two of its three working presidents with former Jorhat MLA Rana Goswami now resigning from the party amid indications that he is going to join the BJP.
Saying it is “tired of talking” about seat-sharing with alliance partners, the Aam Aadmi Party’s central leadership on Thursday announced candidates for three out of Assam’s 14 Lok Sabha seats. At the same time, the party insisted that it is “strongly” with the Opposition INDIA bloc.
A day after vehicles involved in theCongress’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra faced attempted attacks in Assam’s Sonitpur district, a large crowd wielding saffron flags gathered on Monday along a road that is part of the yatra’s route in Morigaon district’s Jagiroad.
The Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi stopped for over two hours at Haibargaon in Assam’s Nagaon, when it was blockaded on the way to Batadrava Than on Monday morning.