Celebrating the NDA’s clear sweep within the bypolls in Assam, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday hailed the BJP’s win in Muslim-majority Samaguri constituency as a milestone within the state’s politics.
The BJP’s Assam unit basic secretary, Diplu Ranjan Sarmah, received from Samaguri with a margin of 24,501 votes. The seat was the one one of many 5 that went for bypolls that had been beforehand held by the Congress, and had been represented by Assam Congress heavyweight Rakibul Hussain for 5 consecutive phrases since 2000.
Earlier than Rakibul’s lengthy tenure as MLA there, his father Nurul Hussain – additionally a Congress chief – had represented the seat for 2 phrases within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties. This time, the Congress had fielded Rakibul’s son, Tanzil, from there and Rakibul had himself led the marketing campaign.
Talking to occasion members on the BJP state headquarters on Sunday night, Sarma mentioned Samaguri was a “troublesome” constituency for the occasion and that he had initially not thought-about it a winnable one. Nonetheless, he mentioned that the occasion’s win from one other Muslim-majority constituency – Karimganj – within the Lok Sabha elections had opened up its path amongst minority voters.
Saying that Karimganj had been thought-about an “unattainable constituency”, he mentioned, “Earlier, it will be mentioned that the BJP received due to vote splitting between Congress and AIUDF. However in Karimganj, we received when AIUDF was not in a position to win any votes. We received with each faith’s votes… The victory in Samaguri is an extension of our victory in Karimganj… 65-75% of voters are from the spiritual minority, and the profitable candidate is an individual from the bulk neighborhood.”
He mentioned the BJP received votes from Muslim voters with a coverage of “appeasement to none, justice for all”.
“Our distinction with Congress is that they search to appease one specific part by constituting issues just like the Sachar committee. They search to appease one specific part… In the course of this (BJP’s win in Samaguri), the Congress could say that the BJP is looking for minority votes… However the BJP has additionally performed evictions in Kachutuli… In the course of this, Assam’s 25,000 minority women have additionally grow to be beneficiaries of the Nijut Moina scheme. This coverage can also be slowly being accepted by Assam’s minority folks and we’re all positive that that is how Assam’s politics will transfer ahead,” he mentioned.
Kachutuli, a Bengali-Muslim village, had seen an eviction drive in September that had turned violent and resulted within the dying of two residents.
Within the bypolls to 5 seats in Assam, the BJP had contested in three and received all of them – Diplu Ranjan Sarmah in Samaguri, Diganta Ghatowal in Behali, and Nihar Ranjan Das in Dholai. Its allies received the 2 different seats – Diptimayee Choudhury of the Asom Gana Parishad received in Bongaigaon seat and Nirmal Kumar Brahma from the United Folks’s Occasion Liberal received Sidli.
