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Days after he was denied a ticket for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, sitting Barpeta MP Abdul Khalque resigned from the Congress on Friday, the latest high-profile exit from the Assam party in recent weeks.
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:
Amid hints from the Centre that the much-delayed rules for the implementation of the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act will be notified before the Model Code of Conduct comes into force for the coming Lok Sabha elections, the battle lines are being drawn in Assam.
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.
Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh’s recent statement that his government will “identify and deport” anyone who entered the state to settle after 1961 has come amid demographic concerns in some sections in the state. The Biren Singh-led BJP government has repeatedly linked the ongoing ethnic strife in the state to “uncontrolled illegal immigration” from the neighbouring country Myanmar.