Mahajot members trade blame for Assam loss
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While the AIUDF held the Congress accountable, the latter pointed to a division of votes by the Raijor Dal-Assam Jatiya Parishad
Perfume baron Badruddin Ajmal’s All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) has attributed the electoral loss of the 10-party Mahajot or grand alliance in Assam to the failure of the Congress to place up an excellent present.
Congress, then again, blamed it on the regional entrance of Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) and Raijor Dal that collectively contested greater than 90 seats however managed to win just one — Sibsagar, which went to Akhil Gogoi, the outfit’s president.
The Mahajot ended up with 50 seats, 4 of them received by Bodoland People’s Front.
“We gave up many seats for the sake of the grand alliance but while we won 16 out of the 20 that we contested, the Congress managed 29 out of 95 contested. We don’t want to engage in a blame game, but the fact is Congress failed to do well in eastern Assam and the northern bank of the Brahmaputra River,” AIUDF common secretary (organisation), Md. Aminul Islam informed The Puucho on Tuesday.
He was among the many 16 AIUDF candidates who received. He had contested the Mankachar seat.
Other AIUDF leaders identified that 16 of the 29 Congress candidates are Muslims. “This indicates Congress benefited because of the AIUDF’s support base in minority areas,” a pacesetter stated.
Jitendra Singh, the AICC common secretary accountable for Assam stated Congress misplaced at the very least 10 seats due to the AJP-Raijor Dal issue. The two events ate up a sizeable chunk of votes towards the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, the Congress felt.
Congress had forward of the three-phase polls requested the AJP-Raijor Dal to hitch the Mahajot bandwagon due to the anti-CAA stand. The latter rejected the provide saying a nationwide social gathering like Congress was no totally different from the BJP.
The BJP rubbished the declare that it had propped up the AJP-Raijor Dal strategically. “Rather, these two parties prevented us from getting more than the 37 seats we won across the eastern half of Assam,” a BJP chief in jap Assam stated.
The AJP-Raijor Dal too trashed the allegation that they have been the BJP’s ‘B-team’.
“The BJP won because of religious polarisation and the failure of Congress in convincing the people,” Raijor Dal chief Bhasco de Saikia stated.
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