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    WANING SCENT OF SAFFRON

    Sep 05, 2020 5 minutes
    By Kaushik Deka

    The speculation about a pre-poll alliance between the Congress and the Badruddin Ajmal-led All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) and the signs of dissent within the state unit of the ruling BJP have created a new electoral arithmetic in Assam even though the assembly election is seven months away. Several top leaders of the Assam Congress have publicly said that they favour a pre-poll alliance with all anti-BJP parties, including AIUDF. “We are entering into an alliance with the AIUDF in the greater interest of the people of Assam,” Congress veteran and former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi recently said in Guwahati.

    On paper, the tie-up between the two parties could give them an edge in over 50 of Assam’s 126 assembly seats by preventing a split

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