A beaming Sarbananda Sonowal, who will be Assam’s Chief Minister, said sealing the winding India-Bangladesh border to end infiltration would be his government’s major challenge.
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Congress was also decimated in the 14 seats of Central Assam’s Morigaon and Nagaon districts, where there is a considerable minority population, retaining two seats and wresting one as against eight seats in the last poll. Second, the saffron party did not indulge in shrill and polarising hyperbole of the kind that dominated both its Delhi and Bihar campaigns but focussed more on aspirational and people’s livelihood issues.
As expected, regional parties are on course to win elections in the eastern state of West Bengal and southern state of Tamil Nadu, while Congress also lost the smaller southern state of Kerala to a left-wing alliance.
India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has gotten a much-needed boost in regional elections, wrestling control of the northeastern state of Assam and expanding its influence beyond its traditional strongholds. BJP leader Ram Madhav tweeted on Friday: “Those confused by media reporting be reassured: two priorities of d new Assam govt: Development n securing Assamese identity from infiltrators”. “Its poor strike rate pulled the DMK al liance down”, he said, holding Congress responsible for DMK’s defeat. “We will work together (with allies) to resolve these issues”. The victorious BJP legislators chose to have the first official meeting of the legislature party on May 22 where Sonowal will be elected as their leader, Sarma said. Further, the minority cell also lauded BJP national president Amit Shah, Assam election incharge Ram Madhav, North East incharge Arun Jamal, and Assam state president Sonowal for their relentless efforts for paving the way in bringing the party to power in Assam. Their victory in Kerala is the result of an unpopular government losing an election and an opponent winning by default. “Tomorrow, if Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton wins the United States presidential elections, can their success be attributed to the BJP?” We have since, a coalition government in Andhra Pradesh and are increasingly pushing the politics of Kerala to a tri-polar position.
The Sena said history is witness that one can not destroy the Congress even when it is down, citing the example of the four seat won by the Congress in the recent by-elections to Delhi’s municipal bodies.
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“We have been doing this since BJP formed its government at the centre”. Similarly, while it bagged just three seats in West Bengal, yet there are telltale signs that the party could hope to spread it wings in the State.
