Urmi Bhattacharjee
Guwahati, May 9: For months, Assam’s political atmosphere appeared far more competitive than what the final results eventually reflected. Social media remained crowded...
Women stood in long queues across Assam this election. In towns, villages, tea gardens, chars and hill districts, they turned up in bigger numbers than men and helped push the state to one of its highest Assembly poll turnouts in recent years.
Cracks have begun to emerge within the Opposition alliance after the debacle in the elections with Raijor Dal leader Akhil Gogoi criticising the Opposition-led Congress for lacking a strategy to counter the BJP.
Amid the All India Trinamool Congress facing setbacks in West Bengal, controversial politician Sherman Ali Ahmed has emerged as a key face for the party in Assam after securing a decisive victory from the Mandia Assembly constituency.
A decisive, almost one-sided mandate has brought Himanta Biswa Sarma back to power, with the Bharatiya Janata Party winning 82 seats on its own and the NDA crossing the 100 mark in a 126-member Assembly.
