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Knives out in Assam opposition, Congress ally says party lacked plan, Rahul and Priyanka were missing

The Indian Express·Sukrita Baruah·25 days ago
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Days after the debacle in the Assam elections, cracks have begun to emerge in the opposition alliance, with the Raijor Dal’s Akhil Gogoi saying that the opposition led by the Congress lacked a strategy to counter the BJP juggernaut and accused its ally of a “haphazard” and “half-hearted” campaign. Akhil Gogoi is one of only 21 candidates of the opposition alliance who won the recently concluded polls. His Raijor Dal won in two of the 13 seats in which it fielded candidates; the Congress won in 19 of the 100 seats in which it fielded candidates, and the other allies – regional parties Assam Jatiya Parishad, All Party Hill Leaders Conference, and the CPI(M) – pulled a blank. The NDA won 102 of 126 seats in the state assembly. After years of an on-again-off-again relationship, the Congress and the Raijor Dal had finalised the alliance just 20 days before the polls. Akhil Gogoi, who has been re-elected from the Sibsagar seat, made a detailed statement about what he thinks are the reasons for this outcome.…

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