Assam: Congress to contest all five seats in bypolls, says Bhupen Borah

GUWAHATI-  Assam Congress president Bhupen Kumar Borah on Tuesday said the party will contest all the five Assembly seats where bypolls will be held. These seats are Samaguri, Behali, Dholai, Sidli, and Bongaigaon.

He also reiterated the party’s opposition to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, even as the state government asked its border police wing to advise non-Muslim illegal immigrants entering the state prior to 2015 to apply for citizenship under the new law.

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These decisions were part of discussions during a meeting chaired by AICC general secretary Jitendra Singh with district-level party leaders here on Monday, marking the first day of his three-day visit, Borah said.

In a post on X, Borah said, “@INCAssam would contest all the 5 seats where byelections would be held. We would constitute 5 teams of senior leaders who would reach out to the grassroots. The Election Commission is yet to announce the bypoll dates.

The Assembly seats of Samaguri, Behali, Dholai, Sidli, and Bongaigaon became vacant after the incumbents were elected to the Lok Sabha. Only the Samaguri seat was held by the Congress, while the rest belonged to the BJP and its allies AGP and BPF.

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The party had contested the last Lok Sabha and 2021 Assembly elections as part of an opposition alliance, though members of the forum had ended up pitching candidates against each other in a few seats in the parliamentary polls.

Borah said the meeting also decided to activate the party’s Disciplinary Action Committee (DAC) to dispose of all pending disciplinary cases as soon as possible.