Bodo council polls in Assam on April 8, Bodoland Territorial Council poll, BTC polls on Apr 8, counting on 11

Bodo council polls in Assam on April 8

Guwahati, (IANS) The election to the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) will be held on April 8 and the counting of votes will take place on April 11, the State Election Commission said here on Wednesday.
Assam's Chief Electoral Officer H.N. Bora said elections will be held for all 40 seats of the council, while the Assam governor will nominate six members from the unrepresented communities.
The last date for filing nominations is March 25. Re-poll, if any, will be held on April 10. Votes will be counted on April 11.

The Election Commission will hold scrutiny of nominations on March 28 and the final list of candidates will be published on the same day.
Over 20.64 lakh people are eligible to vote in the four BTAD districts -- Kokrajhar, Chirang, Baksa and Udalguri. There are 10,58,889 male voters and 10,05,210 female voters. Voting will be held in 2,778 polling stations.

The election will be held in the four Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Districts (BTAD) of Kokrajhar, Chirang, Baksa and Udalguri and is expected to be a fierce one as two big national parties — Congress and BJP — will fight the election against the ruling BPF.

This is the third election to the council. The Bodoland People's Front (BPF), which was formed out of the disbanded Bodo Liberation Tiger in 2003, has been in power since its inception. According to the final electoral rolls, voters in the BTAD areas have increased to 20,64,099 from 18,64,057 in 2010.

Two new political parties for Assam soon, Assam election, Assam political News, Assam news

Two new political parties for Assam soon

Guwahati: It is season of new political parties in Assam with assembly election in the state just a year away, former BJP national executive member and former IT cell national convenor Prodyut Bora has decided to float a new political outfit christened as Liberal Democratic Party.

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AGP to form 8-party front to battle Cong, BJP, Asom Gana Parishad, Assam Political News

AGP to form 8-party front to battle Cong, BJP

The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) on Monday brought together eight political parties and announced its efforts to constitute an anti-Congress and anti-BJP front with a common minimum programme in order to fight the ‘anti-people’ and ‘anti-Assam’ policies adopted by the two parties.

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Assam Lok Sabha Election 2019 Opinion Poll, Who will win in Assam polls, ABP News-Nielsen India Today CVoter opinion/Exit poll results

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Assam Lok Sabha Elections 2019 Opinion Poll Details  

 According to the Republic TV- CVoter Opinion poll latest:

• According to Republic TV-CVoter Opinion Poll 2019, UPA is predicted to get 7 seats and  NDA and AIUDF is predicted to get 6 seats and 1 seat respectively.
  

Lok Sabha Election 2019 Opinion Poll Summary

Click on Individual Assemblies to see a comparative analysis of past 4 elections held in Assam Assembly Wise, Party Wise and Margin of win. There is a detailed analysis of Changing trends of each party in each past elections.

Assam BJP leader quits, blames Modi-Shah, corruption,Assam BJP leaders,Assam Political News, Assam News Updates

Assam BJP leader quits, blames Modi-Shah, corruption

Guwahati, (IANS) A senior leader of the BJP's Assam unit and national executive member has quit the party, blaming Prime Minister Narendra Modi, party president Amit Shah and several other reasons for his "disillusionment".

"My departure from the BJP is not a knee-jerk reaction to any specific event, but a gradual disillusionment, a loss of faith with the general drift of the party at both the national and state levels," said Bora in a letter addressed to media. 

"It was very difficult for me to compose a resignation letter and cite specific causes. What I have tried to do instead is consolidate my thoughts around 5 specific themes: 1) Assam features fairly low on the priority of the national leadership. 2) Subversion of the democratic tradition by the Modi-Shah duo. 3) Political corruption in Assam BJP. 4) BJP's dalliances with the most corrupt Himanta Biswa Sarma. 5) State president Siddhartha Bhattacharya's actions and utterances," Bora said in his letter which was available on his Facebook page. 

Bora, who had unsuccessfully contested the 2011 state assembly polls from Jalukbari constituency, had earlier been vocal against the state BJP leadership over the later's alleged attempt bring in Congress leader and former health and education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to the BJP. 

A product of IIM, Ahmedabad, Bora joined politics by joining BJP's National Media Cell, the party's in-house communication and PR unit. 

In 2007, he was elevated and appointed the national convenor of BJP's Information Technology (IT) Cell. The IT Cell was BJP's newest organisational unit,and Bora was its first head. 

In November 2008, Prodyut was selected to run the communications office of BJP's prime ministerial candidate for the 2009 general elections L.K. Advani. 

"I am still a great advocate of change from within. For many years, I hoped against hope (and experience) that change would take place in Assam BJP. And that it would emerge as the only real alternative to the misrule of the Congress. Today, I am not so sure anymore," Bora mentioned in his letter. 

"I want to keep alive my idealism in the goodness of people, and hope of better days to come. Politics has an immense capacity to corrode that human spirit and turn one into a cynic. I have decided to depart from the BJP before my spirit gets damaged a bit too much," he added.