The Congress party can win a maximum of only one out
of 14 seats in the 2024 general elections and all is not well within the INDIA Opposition
bloc as the party has already made public their probable candidate list for 14
Lok Sabha constituencies, asserted Assam Minister Pijush Hazarika.
Hazarika said, “After Congress made their probable
candidate list public, cracks have widened in the Opposition alliance. Assam
Jatiya Parishad, a constituent of the INDIA bloc in the State, has placed their
demand for at least five seats. Akhil Gogoi from Raijor Dal has been insisting
on giving him the Jorhat seat.”
The Minister also mentioned that the situation of
Congress is awful in Assam and the State’s ruling BJP is set to win at least 11
or 12 Lok Sabha seats in next year’s polls.
“Congress has already lost its voter base. They can
hardly get one seat. The AIUDF will win one seat. That is all. BJP candidates
will emerge victorious in the rest of the seats,” he said.
In the previous Lok Sabha polls, three Congress
candidates won in Assam – Pradyut Bordoloi from Nagaon, Gaurav Gogoi from
Kaliabor and Abdul Khaleque from Barpeta.
Following the delimitation exercise, Gogoi’s Kaliabor
constituency no longer exists. There is now a new Kaziranga Lok Sabha seat with
a changed demography of voters.
The BJP believes that they can easily win the new
seat, with no chances for Gogoi to emerge victorious.
Nagaon has been a BJP stronghold over the last two
decades, with senior party leader and former union minister Rajen Gohain
winning the seat four times.
Gohain was denied a ticket last time as he was accused
in a molestation case. However, he is a potential candidate this time.
But there is a scuffle between Gohain and the next
generation BJP leaders in Nagaon and if the infighting continues till the
polls, then the party might face a hard time to win the seat.
Meanwhile, Khaleque’s seat Barpeta is dominated by
Muslim votes. But Badruddin Ajmal-led AIUDF will field a candidate there.
If the contest becomes a triangular one, then the BJP
has a good chance in Barpeta as well.
Agencies
