Barpeta, Assam: In an apparent bid to counter the rise of BJP in Assam and win back the lost support of minorities in the forthcoming state elections, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi addressed a rally in Barpeta district after a seven kilometer padhyatra that began from a temple and ended at a mosque.
Hitting at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mr Gandhi said at a rally yesterday that people of Assam will reject the BJP like Bihar as the PM did not fulfil his Lok Sabha promises.
"People of Bihar listened to Modiji and told him, go back to Delhi," he said, adding "If the Congress workers can relate to the people like in Bihar, Assam will also reject BJP," he said.
Mr Ajmal's party won six of the eight assembly seats in the 2011 assembly polls.
Facing anti-incumbency after ruling the state for 15 years, this seems to be a toughest election in decades for the Congress.
Mr Kishor emerged as a key architect of the spectacular victory of Nitish Kumar and Lalu Yadav's Grand Alliance in Bihar.
According to reports Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, a Congress ally, is in talks with Mr Ajmal and other regional leaders like Prafulla Kumar Mahanta of the Asom Gana Parishad to repeat the Bihar victory in Assam.
Hitting at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mr Gandhi said at a rally yesterday that people of Assam will reject the BJP like Bihar as the PM did not fulfil his Lok Sabha promises.
"People of Bihar listened to Modiji and told him, go back to Delhi," he said, adding "If the Congress workers can relate to the people like in Bihar, Assam will also reject BJP," he said.
Mr Ajmal's party won six of the eight assembly seats in the 2011 assembly polls.
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Facing anti-incumbency after ruling the state for 15 years, this seems to be a toughest election in decades for the Congress.
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Mr Kishor emerged as a key architect of the spectacular victory of Nitish Kumar and Lalu Yadav's Grand Alliance in Bihar.
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According to reports Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, a Congress ally, is in talks with Mr Ajmal and other regional leaders like Prafulla Kumar Mahanta of the Asom Gana Parishad to repeat the Bihar victory in Assam.
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