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It is the “Assamese heartland” that has largely transformed into a BJP stronghold over the last decade. As five seats in the Upper Assam region vote in the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections on Friday, the Opposition INDIA alliance will look to regain its lost ground there while the ruling party attempts to retain its grip on the region.
It is a sultry afternoon and a group of tea garden workers are seated before Congress’s Jorhat Lok Sabha candidate Gaurav Gogoi. “Today, I am not in an assembly but among members of my home. So, I will not give you lengthy sermons,” Gogoi tells the crowd at the Mejenga tea estate in Titabor.
With less than a week to go for polls, the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), once vocally opposed in Assam’s Dibrugarh constituency, seems to have faded into the background of political discussions.
An associate professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University’s School of Social Sciences, Angomcha Bimol Akoijam is an unlikely politician. In this election, he is making his political debut as the Congress candidate from the Inner Manipur constituency.
The Meira Paibis of Imphal’s Chingamakha area begin their nightly vigil at a small “guard-post” at 9 pm. On Saturday, at around 9.40 pm, two women volunteers working for the Congress candidate from Inner Manipur Lok Sabha constituency joined them for 10 minutes.
On the cusp of yet another election, six eastern districts in Nagaland have again called for a boycott of the polls over their demand for greater autonomy. On Monday, the Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation (ENPO) wrote to the Election Commission of India, saying that the people of these districts have taken “a collective decision to abstain” from participating in the election.
The ripple effect of the nearly year-long ethnic strife in Manipur is now being felt in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. With nominations for the first phase of polls closing on Wednesday, there is still no member of the Kuki-Zomi community in the fray from the Outer Manipur seat, which votes across the first and second phases (April 19, 26).
Voting in Manipur, which has been rocked by conflict for nearly a year now, will take place over two phases with preparations currently underway to enable people displaced within the state to vote at or close to their relief camps.