Congress To Fight Assam Bypolls Alone, Says Need To Boost Organisation
NDTV
5 Assembly seats in Assam are vacant due to deaths and resignations of MLAs. Another seat will fall vacant when former CM Sarbananda Sonowal resigns
The Congress is gearing up to fight the assembly bypolls in Assam, likely to take place by the end of this year, alone without forming any alliance, state party president Bhupen Kumar Borah said today.
The state Congress has decided to field its own candidates in the seats where bypolls will be held as it wants to regain the lost ground in the constituencies that were offered to alliance partners before the assembly elections held earlier this year, he said.
Five assembly seats are now lying vacant due to deaths and resignations of MLAs and another legislator who became a Union minister is yet to quit his membership in the House.
"Due to the alliance, our organisation became weak in many areas like the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR). Our cadres got demotivated in those constituencies where we did not contest. We need to strengthen those seats," Mr Borah said in an interaction with senior journalists of the state media.
