SILCHAR, May 18: The AUDF wave massacred the traditional Muslim votes of the Congress and that sealed the fate of veteran leader Sontosh Mohan Dev. The Cachar district Congress, in its first round of ‘post mortem’, had reached this conclusion.
But, while sharing their assessment with the media, the district Congress leaders including the Urban Development Minister Dinesh Prasad Goala, fumbled repeatedly as they failed to clarify the questions of sabotage, as raised by the scribes.
Goala argued that politics of development always faced resistance when wave of religious fanaticism brew up as in 1991 the BJP, riding on the Mandir issue, snatched away nine Assembly seats out of 15 in the Barak Valley. This time too, the AUDF succeeded in whipping up the Muslim sentiments. Admitting this, the State Congress Minority Cell chairman Misbahul Islam Laskar however claimed that it would be erroneous to jump to the conclusion that Dev did not have his share of Muslim votes in this Lok Sabha election.
District president Karnendu Bhattcahrjee admitted that there were lapses in the organizational functioning this time, but Goala nullified the observation, arguing that organizational strength could never stand up in front of communal wave as neither the BJP had any organizational base in 1991 nor the AUDF had any in 2009.
Islam said, in the national level, Muslims had voted in favour of Congress. Then why the picture was reverse in Silchar? Misbahul Islam, who had reportedly sat idle this time to settle score with his one time mentor Dev, said, in Cachar, the resentment of the Muslims was not addressed properly.
He however maintained that the district chapter of his cell had worked sincerely, thus indirectly hinting that Dev failed to address the Muslim cause. Bhattacharjee, who had been the district president for more than two decades said, he would not allow anybody to renew term and before quitting he would definitely see to it that if anybody had stabbed the party candidate from behind he should be punished accordingly.
He said, the message of the wave of development in the State, led by Tarun Gogoi, could not be reached to the mass.
Further the communally polarized backdrop politics of development failed to find any buyer.The press meet was also attended by Parliamentary secretary Ajit Singh who preferred to remain silent. THE SENTINEL
But, while sharing their assessment with the media, the district Congress leaders including the Urban Development Minister Dinesh Prasad Goala, fumbled repeatedly as they failed to clarify the questions of sabotage, as raised by the scribes.
Goala argued that politics of development always faced resistance when wave of religious fanaticism brew up as in 1991 the BJP, riding on the Mandir issue, snatched away nine Assembly seats out of 15 in the Barak Valley. This time too, the AUDF succeeded in whipping up the Muslim sentiments. Admitting this, the State Congress Minority Cell chairman Misbahul Islam Laskar however claimed that it would be erroneous to jump to the conclusion that Dev did not have his share of Muslim votes in this Lok Sabha election.
District president Karnendu Bhattcahrjee admitted that there were lapses in the organizational functioning this time, but Goala nullified the observation, arguing that organizational strength could never stand up in front of communal wave as neither the BJP had any organizational base in 1991 nor the AUDF had any in 2009.
Islam said, in the national level, Muslims had voted in favour of Congress. Then why the picture was reverse in Silchar? Misbahul Islam, who had reportedly sat idle this time to settle score with his one time mentor Dev, said, in Cachar, the resentment of the Muslims was not addressed properly.
He however maintained that the district chapter of his cell had worked sincerely, thus indirectly hinting that Dev failed to address the Muslim cause. Bhattacharjee, who had been the district president for more than two decades said, he would not allow anybody to renew term and before quitting he would definitely see to it that if anybody had stabbed the party candidate from behind he should be punished accordingly.
He said, the message of the wave of development in the State, led by Tarun Gogoi, could not be reached to the mass.
Further the communally polarized backdrop politics of development failed to find any buyer.The press meet was also attended by Parliamentary secretary Ajit Singh who preferred to remain silent. THE SENTINEL
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