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Assam Pradesh Congress Committee president Gaurav Gogoi addresses the media in Guwahati on Tuesday. (ANI) As Opposition parties in Assam took stock of their poll debacle on Tuesday, Assam Congress president Gaurav Gogoi, who himself lost the election from Jorhat , questioned the role of the Election Commission (EC), pointing to the huge margins of the BJP’s victories. The Congress registered its worst performance in Assam, winning only 19 of the 126 Assembly seats. Of its 19 MLAs, 18 are Muslim leaders who won from seats where minority community voters make up a bulk of voters, reflecting the party’s inability to appeal to the rest of the electorate. The electoral loss suffered by Gogoi, who had made his state poll debut, was the biggest individual defeat among the party’s candidates, along with the defeat of Debabrata Saikia, who was the Leader of the Opposition in the outgoing Assembly.…

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