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GUWAHATI:
The Assam portion of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has slammed the “directionless” Opposition parties for accusing it of manipulating the electoral rolls to guarantee victory for the National Democratic Alliance successful the upcoming Assembly polls.
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The elections to the 126-member House are expected by the archetypal fractional of May.
In a connection connected Thursday (January 8, 2026), BJP spokesperson Kamal Kumar Medhi said the Congress and different Opposition parties fto Raijor Dal MLA Akhil Gogoi “spread 1 imaginary communicative aft another” to commencement ranting.
Raijor Dal is simply a constituent of a forum of non-NDA parties successful Assam. A large governmental enactment not successful this forum is the Maulana Badruddin Ajmal-led All India United Democratic Front.
“The infinitesimal Akhil Gogoi floated a caller communicative astir alleged elector deletion, leaders of the Congress and different Opposition parties rushed to endorse his claims without verifying their information oregon authenticity,” Mr Medhi said.
“A confused and directionless Opposition, incapable to spot adjacent a azygous credible governmental contented earlier the people, is present suffering from heavy frustration. None of the issues raised by the Opposition against the BJP-led confederation authorities nether the enactment of Himanta Biswa Sarma has recovered acceptance among the people,” helium said.
Mr. Medhi claimed that the radical of Assam are convinced that indigenous communities and citizens of Indian root are unafraid lone nether the BJP.
On January 6, Mr. Gogoi claimed that the BJP was pursuing an docket to manipulate the electoral rolls successful Assam by deleting astatine slightest 10,000 voters per constituency. He besides claimed that the BJP tasked each its MLAs and territory presidents to sift the pro-BJP voters from those who are against the enactment for indispensable action.
The Congress and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) made akin claims, the second insisting that the authorities successful occidental Assam’s Bajali territory verbally instructed officials to reappraisal the voters’ lists of 115 polling booths successful Muslim-majority areas.
