GUWAHATI: The Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) has snubbed the invitation of the Election Commission on Monday to participate in any consultation with the RCI team regarding the Delimitation process on Tuesday.
Addressing a press conference at Rajiv Bhawan in Guwahati today, APCC chief Bhupen Borah said, “The EC sent us an invitation again after we did not attend participate in the consultancy process. Several political parties who had attended the meeting suggested that we should have also gone with them and participated in it.”
“But we weren’t waiting for the consultancy process to happen as we met the EC just after the notification of delimitation process was issued,” Borah said.
Bora said that while other political parties have put forward their views regarding the delimitation process to the EC now, they however, did their part much before the consultancy process was started.
Bhupen Bora said, “We acted immediately after the notification of delimitation process was issued by the state government on Jan 1. Within 76 hours of the announcement, a ten-member team comprising our MPs, legislators and office- bearers went to New Delhi and submitted our views before the ECI. We didn’t know then whether the ECI team will visit Assam”.
Bora added that this is the second time the ECI sent an invite to APCC on Monday, March 27. Earlier, an invite to put forward their views was dispatched by the ECI on Mar 21, he informed.
The APCC chief said, “As we submitted our views earlier in Jan, we do not have any additional views or opinions to put forward in front of the Election Commission now. So there is no question of our meeting the team now.”
Yesterday, after top Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leaders and the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president decided not to participate in the consultation process of the ongoing delimitation exercise, the ECI had extended an invitation to the Congress delegates to meet the Commission till 1.00 pm on Tuesday, March 28, 2023.
The ECI had, in a statement, requested the Congress delegates to join the consultation process with respect to delimitation and make the process more inclusive and participatory.
It said that they had already given time to the Indian National Congress (INC) delegation ahead of everyone else at the very beginning in New Delhi on January 4, 2023.
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