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SILCHAR, Jan 9: "Notwithstanding the report in a Bengali Daily published from here, Badaruddin Azmal, AUDF supremo, is all set to contest from Silchar Lok Sabha seat", pointed out president of the Cachar district committee Anup Chowdhury while talking to the media-persons at Silchar Press Club today.
He dubbed a news item in the said daily quoting that an MLA of Cachar was pressuring him not to contest from here. Rather the opinion and consensus among party leaders and workers across seven assembly constituencies of the district as well as in the state committee was to field the party supremo from Silchar.
Chowdhury said that people of Barak Valley want changes and they would be happy to see Azmal contest and win, considering the mess in which the ruling Congress and its leader Union Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Sontosh Mohan Dev is in the present incumbent from Silchar seat, have put the valley in.
Elaborating, he added to say that the socioeconomic conditions of people have gone from bad to worse. Development funds meant for welfare and well being of the masses are misappropriated and mis–utilized.
The Cachar district AUDF president reminded that the Central Committee of the party has decided to contest nine LS seats in Asom. Badaruddin Azmal would contest from Dhubri and Silchar. He said, "it has created scare in Congress circles for the candidature of AUDF supremo is acceptable to all sections of people, cutting across castes and creeds". He claimed that his image is clean and he is most favoured to be the candidate from here.
He described the propaganda by some vested interests that in the event of Azmal contesting from Silchar, it would facilitate the victory of BJP. There was no basis behind such apprehension.
He pointed out that the only AUDF MLA of the district Ataur Rahman Mazarbhuiya also favoured his candidature.
General secretary of the party Altaf Hussain Mazumdar said that Congress was their main enemy while BJP was their second opposition. He was confident that AUDF could easily beat both Congress and BJP on their own turfs. "The trends of the last five elections on this seat indicated the possibility of third candidate wining in the fray", he maintained.
It was easier this time to put Sontosh Mohan Dev in the dock as during his 28 years of reign as Union Minister and MP, not even a 5 km of road in Silchar could be improved. His is a tale of dismal failure on all fronts.
In order to strengthen the campaign and prospect of the party candidate, Mazumdar said NCP, SP, CPI and CPM would back their candidates.
He however spared BJP and its candidate Kabindra Purkayastha from his criticism. Political analysts are of the view that if AUDF supremo ultimately contests from Silchar, it is definite to change the political equation and tilt the balance for the third potential candidate. This will be no surprise. source: sentinel assam
He dubbed a news item in the said daily quoting that an MLA of Cachar was pressuring him not to contest from here. Rather the opinion and consensus among party leaders and workers across seven assembly constituencies of the district as well as in the state committee was to field the party supremo from Silchar.
Chowdhury said that people of Barak Valley want changes and they would be happy to see Azmal contest and win, considering the mess in which the ruling Congress and its leader Union Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Sontosh Mohan Dev is in the present incumbent from Silchar seat, have put the valley in.
Elaborating, he added to say that the socioeconomic conditions of people have gone from bad to worse. Development funds meant for welfare and well being of the masses are misappropriated and mis–utilized.
The Cachar district AUDF president reminded that the Central Committee of the party has decided to contest nine LS seats in Asom. Badaruddin Azmal would contest from Dhubri and Silchar. He said, "it has created scare in Congress circles for the candidature of AUDF supremo is acceptable to all sections of people, cutting across castes and creeds". He claimed that his image is clean and he is most favoured to be the candidate from here.
He described the propaganda by some vested interests that in the event of Azmal contesting from Silchar, it would facilitate the victory of BJP. There was no basis behind such apprehension.
He pointed out that the only AUDF MLA of the district Ataur Rahman Mazarbhuiya also favoured his candidature.
General secretary of the party Altaf Hussain Mazumdar said that Congress was their main enemy while BJP was their second opposition. He was confident that AUDF could easily beat both Congress and BJP on their own turfs. "The trends of the last five elections on this seat indicated the possibility of third candidate wining in the fray", he maintained.
It was easier this time to put Sontosh Mohan Dev in the dock as during his 28 years of reign as Union Minister and MP, not even a 5 km of road in Silchar could be improved. His is a tale of dismal failure on all fronts.
In order to strengthen the campaign and prospect of the party candidate, Mazumdar said NCP, SP, CPI and CPM would back their candidates.
He however spared BJP and its candidate Kabindra Purkayastha from his criticism. Political analysts are of the view that if AUDF supremo ultimately contests from Silchar, it is definite to change the political equation and tilt the balance for the third potential candidate. This will be no surprise. source: sentinel assam
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