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Assembly Elections 2016 India - Latest News, Results, Updates, Photos Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his   Kerala Assembly Elections 2016   -Somalia comparison, the CPI-M here today said situation in the state did not become like the African country because BJP never came to power here. "Modi's statement would result in a setback to BJP in the ensuing polls as it has insulted the people of the state," CPI-M state Secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said. Referring to Modi's Somalia remarks, Balakrishnan said "one thing the Prime Minister should understand is that the state has no such situation as in Somalia because, BJP has never come to power". He said "Gujarat Model" development projected by the BJP was actually a false propaganda. "It was the first communist government formed in 1957 that laid the foundation for the development path of the state with its policy on land reforms, education, health and also in o...

Assam Assembly Elections   : Different permutation When chief Minister Tarun Gogoi was asked ahead of the 2011 Assembly Elections whether the Congress was considering an alliance with Badruddin Ajmal of the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), he famously answered: "Ajmal who?" So far, there seems little chance of a Congress-AIUDF alliance. If they had tied up, the Congress might have lost some ground but it would have been a formidable force. Instead, it is the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which is going on an alliance spree - it has tied up with the Asom Gana Parishad, the Bodoland People's Front (BPF) and some other independents. As alliances go, the BJP's is a strong one. In the previous Assembly's tenure, the BPF had supported the Gogoi government till 2014. After the riots in Kokrajhar, an area controlled by BPF, the party began to get uneasy. It lost Kokrajhar in the Lok Sabha polls of 2014 and since then, a section of t...