AAP is the BJP’s most vocal challenger in Guwahati civic polls
The Hindu
The saffron party has already won three of the 60 wards uncontested
GUWAHATI
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) upstaged the Congress, Assam’s principal Opposition party, to emerge as the most vocal challenger to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the Guwahati Municipal Corporation polls.
The BJP has already won three of the 60 wards of the corporation. The campaign for the remaining 57 seats ended on April 20.
Apart from BJP, the AAP was the most boisterous party during the campaign. The crisis-ridden Congress was subdued while the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) did not contest the civic polls.
“We are hopeful of a good show. Many residents of Guwahati, unhappy with the lack of water supply and other civic amenities, consider us as an alternative to the BJP,” Bhaben Choudhury, the AAP’s State coordinator said.
The AAP is contesting 39 seats.
The Arvind Kejriwal-led party had tasted its first electoral success in Assam by winning a ward each in the Lakhimpur and Tinsukia municipal boards in March. The BJP had won 75 of the 80 municipal boards across Assam’s smaller urban centres.