Guwahati: With speculation rife about a Bihar-like alliance between Congress and AIUDF in the state, BJP, too, is exploring the possibility of tying up with like-minded organizations ahead of next year's assembly election. The saffron...
Saffron party eyes pact with non-Cong, non-AIUDF groups
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Assam CM favours Bihar model to check BJP surge
GUWAHATI: Buoyed by the success of Bihar's Grand Alliance, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday said he is in favour of giving shape to a 'grand understanding' among political parties in eastern India to check BJP's rise in the region. "I strongly feel that we should have a 'maha understanding' of anti-BJP forces in eastern India to take on communal and divisive outfits. The success of the grand alliance...
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BJP leader files Rs 100 crore defamation suit against Assam CM Tarun Gogoi
BJP leader and former Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said he has filed a Rs.100 crore civil defamation suit against Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi for alleging his involvement in scams. ......
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Gogoi hints at Cong tie-up with AIUDF
Guwahati: Chief minister Tarun Gogoi said, except BJP, Congress is open to forming an alliance with any party for the assembly election next year. Responding to reporters' questions on whether the party would tie up with All India United...
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BJP is for understanding with like-minded parties in Assam
GUWAHATI: At a time talks of Bihar-like understandings doing rounds within Congress and All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) in Assam, BJP has also geared up its search for ties with like-minded non-Congress and non-AIUDF parties in the state ahead of the assembly polls. The saffron party recently constituted a committee comprising MPs Romen Deka, Rajen Gohain,...
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Ajmal's Rs 99cr defamation suit against Ahmed
Guwahati: The All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) chief and perfume baron Badruddin Ajmal filed a defamation suit of Rs 99 crore against Congress...
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Tarun Gogoi appears before court in Rs 100 crore defamation case
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi appeared in court today. (file photo) Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday appeared before a court in connection with a defamation suit filed against him by his former lieutenant and present BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma and said criticism was fair in politics. Sarma had slammed a defamation suit worth Rs 100 crore in the court of the Civil Judge No 1 after Gogoi reportedly said that he (Sarma) was an accused in the Saradha and Louis Berger scandals. “I have never...
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Tarun Gogoi
Tarun Gogoi chief minister of Assam comes out off the CJM court after appearing in the Rs 1000 crore defamation case suit by BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma in Guwahati. Assam Chief Minister and veteran Congress leader Tarun Gogoi on Monday appeared before a court here in connection with a defamation suit filed against him by his...
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Gogoi playing petty politics: Ajmal
GUWAHATI: All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) chief Badruddin Ajmal has accused chief minister Tarun Gogoi of playing petty politics by frequently alleging that his party has links with BJP. Ajmal on Wednesday said he did not expect such a statement from the...
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BJP leader files Rs 100 crore defamation suit against Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi
GUWAHATI: BJP leader and former...
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Ajmal files 99-cr defamation suit against trader
Guwahati: All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) chief and perfume baron Maulana Badruddin Ajmal has filed a defamation suit of Rs 99 crore against one Mustaque Anfar, a trader from Hojai, on Tuesday....
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Congress charges BJP of proposing Rs 150 crore to AIUDF to cut minority votes
GUWAHATI: The ruling Congress triggered fresh political controversy in poll-bound Assam after it charged BJP of proposing the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) to field candidates in all 126 constituencies for the 2016 assembly to ensure minority votes are divided. "I learnt from my...
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No pre-poll alliance with Congress in Assam: AIUDF chief Ajmal
NEW DELHI: AIUDF, which has significant base in Assam's Muslim-dominated districts, on Friday ruled out any pre-poll alliance with Congress for the coming assembly polls but said it is open to joining hands with all secular parties after the election. Chief of All India United Democratic Front Badruddin Ajmal said he is working for a Bihar-type grand alliance (minus Congress) in...
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Gogoi rules out possibility of Ajmal-led third front in Assam
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday denied any possibility of joining hands with the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) to form a third front. Earlier this week, AIUDF chief and perfume baron...
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BJP breaks Congress stranglehold over Assam
The BJP coalition has won a comfortable victory with 86 seats in the 126-member Assam Assembly. Party's chief ministerial candidate Sarbananda Sonowal said the priority of the new government will be to protect the interests of “greater Assamese society.” Meanwhile, All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) president Badruddin Ajmal, who lost from South Salmara constituency, said, "The public has given its mandate to the BJP. We welcome this change." Read more As it happened: 10.00 pm: And that's a wrap for the Assam Assembly elections today. BJP has won 60 seats, with its coalition partners — the Asom Gana Parishad and the Bodoland Peoples Front winning 14 and 12...
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The enigma of arrival
Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal The historic achievement that the formation of a BJP-led government in Assam represented last month has been attributed to a wide range of factors. For some observers, it was more the defeat of the Congress than victory of the BJP: Tarun Gogoi, after three terms, was affected by the anti-incumbency syndrome and charges of nepotism; the party had also alienated the other strongman of the state government, Himanta Biswa Sarma, who crossed over to the BJP in 2015. Commentators have highlighted the effectiveness of the BJP’s strategy. While the party had tended to rely more on Narendra Modi’s image in the Delhi and Bihar elections in 2015, this year, the PM has not...
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BJP’s chances depend on split in the Muslim vote
Prime minister of India Narendra Modi , former chief minister of Assam and Assom Gana Parishad (AGP) candidate of Baharampur constituency and Angurlata Deka BJP candidate of Batarduwa constituency wave toward a crowd in an election rally. Elections in Assam had never been as exciting as it was this time. While it was one of the most peaceful elections in the state in the past three decades or more, old-timers compare it with the 1985 elections, the one that was held within four months of the Assam Accord, one that also saw the newly-formed Asom Gana...
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Union Ministers disempowered in Modi regime, Tarun Gogoi says
You are going into the polls with a three-term anti-incumbency in tow, and it is considered your greatest disadvantage going into the polls. There are advantages and disadvantages to this. Anti-incumbency is of course a factor, the advantage is that people have seen whether the development process is moving ahead or not. The people of Assam know what the situation was in 2001 and even in 2006 I didn’t get a majority, it was in fact in 2011, for my third term that we got a full majority. Everyone, including the Congress high command expected me to lose in 2011. It makes you question the nature of anti-incumbency and that elections are about who delivers on promises. The people will look...
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BJP MLA Himanta Biswa Sarma
BJP candidate of Jalukbari constituency Himanta Biswa Sarma (white kurta ) shows his ink finger mark after casting his vote. (File Photo) Nine months after walking out of the Congress, Himanta Biswa Sarma is now a BJP MLA and a key member of its core strategy team. He talks to Abantika Ghosh about the party’s win, and what comes next. Did you expect such a big victory? I had told you. BJP is leading in 60-plus seats, AGP is winning 14 and BPF 12. When you are 86-plus, everybody has to do well. Except for heavy Muslim majority areas, we have done well everywhere, even in the hills, which are not known for their BJP support. We won four of five seats there. We even have one Muslim MLA. WATCH...
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The new duo in BJP backroom
Rajat Sethi (L), Shubhrastha. “Assam is a difficult state for the BJP. There is no guarantee of winning. Do you still want to go?” Rajat Sethi was asked in July 2015, two months after returning from the US, by BJP general secretary Ram Madhav. Sethi, 30, didn’t think twice and shifted base from New Delhi to Guwahati because he was looking for a “not-so-structured life”. “We won because we had formidable social coalition of various communities and tribes. Sarbananda Sonowal’s clean image along with Himanta Biswa Sarma’s dynamism helped us,” says...
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