GUWAHATI: The Assam Congress has now set its sights on the minority-dominated areas, after conducting campaigns earlier among tea tribes and Adivasi communities. A ‘Chang-e, Chang-e’ campaign, aimed at connecting with the Mishing community, was also conducted some time back.
The opposition party will now carry out extensive campaigns in area dominated by the religious minorities, in a bid to outdo the AIUDF, with which it vowed to have no truck.
The new campaign named ‘Char-e, Char-e’ will be conducted mainly in the Sar areas, the river sandbanks inhabited by the minorities.
An Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) source said on Saturday, “We have decided to go to minority-dominated areas. We aim to gather mass opinion against the BJP in these areas. We want to highlight that the religious minority community has been betrayed by the BJP during its tenure in the government. The areas with a preponderance of minorities have not been developed on a par with others. On the other hand, the AIUDF has been using them politically, in a communal way. We want to save the community from the BJP and AIUDF.”
The source said the party is mainly focussed on areas where there exist or has existed a AIUDF MLA. He also reiterated that there will be no alliance with the AIUDF and that this fact will be made clear in the areas being targeted by the Congress.
The Congress is organising a meeting at Sonai on Sunday, the APCC informed the media. The party had earlier held a meeting at Dalgaon.
APCC president Bhupen Borah sought to play down the controversy surrounding the non-attendance of senior leaders, including Debabrata Saikia, the leader of the opposition in the Assam Assembly, at the opposition meet in Hotel Lily on Thursday. Borah clarified that he had informed Saikia about the meet in a letter but the Congress leader could not attend due to prior commitments.
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