BJP’S HISTORIC
WIN IN ASSAM
Assam Assembly Election
Results 2016: BJP sweeps hitherto traditional Congress bastion.BJP charted its
historic win in Assam, the first for the party in the Northeast, by sweeping
hitherto traditional Congress bastions of Upper Assam, Barak Valley and by also
making tentative inroads into the minority- dominated districts. BJP charted
its historic win in Assam, the first for the party in the Northeast, by
sweeping hitherto traditional Congress bastions of Upper Assam, Barak Valley
and by also making tentative inroads into the minority- dominated districts.
BJP successfully managed to woo the traditional Congress vote bank of tea
garden labourers and also made unexpected entry in certain minority-dominated
areas.
In the 34 seats in Upper
Assam, with 23 of these having a sizable tea garden population for Congress,
the saffron party won 18 seats as against a presence of only two seats in the
outgoing Assembly. Congress, which had swept the last polls winning 30 of its
total 78 seats from Upper Assam failed miserably to stop BJP upsurge managing
to retain only seven seats and wresting one from BJP. AGP, which entered into a poll alliance with
BJP, improved its tally to six from the area, retaining one seat while another
sitting MLA joined BJP. AIUDF sprung a surprise by winning Naoboicha
seat,wresting it from Congress. In another major Congress bastion of the Barak
Valley with 15 seats, BJP had no presence in the last polls though it later won
a by-election from Silchar but in the just concluded polls it went on to win
eight seats.
Congress with 13 seats in
the last Assembly from the Barak Valley, managed to retain only three while
AIUDF which had only seat went on to win from three constituencies. In the five
constituencies of the Hill districts of Dima Hasao and Karbi Anglong, Congress
had captured all five seats in the last polls but in this election, it managed
to retain only one with BJP wresting the remaining four seats.In the 18
constituencies of minority dominated three districts of Dhubri, Goalpara and
Barpeta, BJP made tentative forays winning four seats while its ally, AGP won
two seats. AIUDF, the principal Opposition party in the last Assembly, had won
12 seats from these areas, but was decimated in this poll winning only three
seats with its party chief Badruddin Ajmal losing the South Salmara seat in
Dhubri district to Congress candidate Wajed Ali Choudhury.
Congress with only three
seats from these districts in the last Assembly managed to woo the minority
voters in this poll winning eight seats. 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.BJP, which had no presence in these two
districts in the last poll, wrested seven seats while its ally, AGP retained
two seats. AIUDF with four seats in the last polls managed to retain only two.
BJP also swept the ten assembly constituencies under both Kamrup Metro and
Rural winning eight seats, as against one in the last polls, while Congress won
only two seats as against six in the last polls.The sway of BJP-led alliance
continued in the eight seats of the Northern bank district of Sonitpur where
the saffron party, with no presence in 2011, went on to win seven seats and its
ally retained one while Congress, with six seats in the last assembly, failed
to win a single seat. BJP’s other ally the Bodo Peoples’ Front kept its account
of 12 seats intact though it lost in one but gained another seat. The new
Assembly will have only one independent MLA as against two in the outgoing
Assembly.
Prof. John Kurakar
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