Assembly Elections 2016
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...