Raijor Dal

Spotlight on Assam's tea garden districts as first phase of campaigning ends; Opposition bets on CAA, BJP offers NRC correction

A total of 47 seats will go to polls on 27 March, which will decide the fate of 264 candidates, including Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Congress' Debabrata Saikia and Ripun Bora, jailed anti-CAA activist Akhil Gogoi and Assam Jatiya Parishad president Lurinjyoti Gogoi

Assam Election: CAA unlikely to be major poll issue as not all see Act detrimental to state, say experts

To a significant extent, the BJP has succeeded in sidelining the CAA and portraying the Muslims of Bengal origin as the biggest threat to the indigenous communities in Assam

Assam Assembly Election 2021: BJP manifesto silence on CAA, Clause 6 ploy ahead of first round

BJP is a lethal force in contemporary India's political landscape but it is careful enough not to walk through a minefield

Assam Assembly Election 2021: As Raijor Dal and AJP 'friendlies' near, time will tell if disaster or masterstroke

Although the election is an opportunity for these parties to prove their political mettle, the run-up to the poll has already been filled with myriad confusions, claims, accusations and questionable tactics

Assam Assembly Election 2021: Fissures in Raijor Dal as 'secret' Congress role in Jorhat, Mariani emerges

The chaos and confusion within Raijor Dal in Jorhat and elsewhere has brought back the importance of the tenets of discipline, transparency and no holds barred communication in the functioning of a political party

Assam Assembly Election 2021: Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, a mediocre politician, but student leader par excellence

Compared to the fiery beginning that he made in 1979 as a student leader, Mahanta's political career however has waned away in a depressing fashion

Ahead of Assembly election, new regional parties pop up in Assam; but they may not be potent enough to dislodge BJP

Emerging out of anti-CAA protests, with its Assamese centric character and consequent inability to significantly mobilise cross-sectional participation, these parties would face considerable difficulty to expand their appeal beyond some 35 seats where Assamese speakers are dominant.