[Assam] Local Elections

Wed Jan 30 10:05:32 PST 2008

Perverse philosophy of Voters who think:
The Dispur's Congressy moneybags  will pump more cash into  my area-
--and we can make hay when the sun shines.
All wrong of course.
And the Cong is very unhappy that "others" cannot  now  be blamed for peoples' woes.
Voters may ask"You here-you  at Dispur-you  at  Dilli--and yet we in the quagmire??
And "the Founding Fathers "  did not write about Panchayat Elections thus:"Elect your own elite-for mobilizing your lives  .
National Parties shall NOT lend their names to any candidate"
Anyway GP /AP will be another Farce in Assam.
mm


> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:24:57 -0800> From: dilipdeka at yahoo.com> To: assam at assamnet.org> Subject: [Assam] Local Elections> > Why is it that the local parties couldn't do well even in local elections?> Zila Parishad elections would be like County elections in USA, I'd think. The ZP elections should have been more oriented towards local issues, thus making them more favorable to the local parties. Where is the gap?> Dilip Deka> ============================================================================> >From the Sentinel:> Congress steals the show> Panchayat poll results > By our Staff Reporter> GUWAHATI, Jan 29: Down from the 18 zila parishads that the ruling Congress had won in the last panchayat polls, the party nevertheless won 14 of the 18 zila parishads that went to polls in the State this time. The ruling party also won most of the seats for anchalik parishad members, gaon panchayat presidents and gaon panchayat members, though the AGP and the BJP fought strongly in some of the districts.> Based on the number of Congress party candidates winning in their respective constituencies, the best performance has been seen in the constituencies of Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Education Minister Ripun Bora and Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain. The worst performance has been in the constituencies of Parliamentary Affairs Minister Bharat Narah and Power Minister Pradyut Bordoloi.> For the AGP, the best performance has been witnessed in the constituencies of Phani Bhushan Choudhury, Padma Hazarika, Pradip Hazarika and Sarbananda Sonowal, while the worst performance has been in the constituencies of party president Brindabon Goswami, Hiten Goswami and Atul Bora.> AGP-P president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta and Hiranya Konwar are also the worst performers in terms of performance by party candidates in their constituencies. As for the CPI, Dhrupad Borgohain’s constituency has seen the worst performance. > Meanwhile, with the victory of the Congress, a number of anti-Gogoi Congress leaders from Delhi to Dispur, who were ready challenge the Chief Minister in the event of poor performance of the party in the panchayat polls, have had to bite the dust. The Congress leaders who were vocal for Congress-AUDF merger have been silenced by the poor performance of the Badruddin Ajmal-led AUDF.> > Kamrup (Metro) goes to Congress> By our Staff Reporter> GUWAHATI, Jan 29: The ruling Congress came out winner in Kamrup (Metro) in panchayat polls, the results of which were declared today. > Of the five zila parishad (ZP) seats in the district, the Congress won as many as four, while one seat went to the AGP. > Of the 21 gaon panchayat (GP) president seats in the district, the Congress won 14, followed by the BJP four and the AGP three.> The Congress also maintained its winning spree in anchalik parishad (AP) member seats in the district by winning 12 of the 21 seats. Of the remaining nine seats, the BJP won five, AGP two, and AGP-P and the TGP one each. > Of the 207 GP member seats in the district, the Congress won 116 seats, followed by the BJP 41, AGP 31, TGP 10 and others 11.> It may be mentioned here that though the Congress won the panchayat polls in a massive way in Kamrup (Metro), yet the BJP seemed to have made a good inroad into the district despite the absence of any MLA there. Talking to The Sentinel today, BJP’s City District Committee president Jayanta Kumar Das said: “The results of the BJP were beyond expectations. We came second in Kamrup (Metro) despite the absence any MLA in the district. In most of the ZP seats, we were a close second, and this will have its impact in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls in the State.”> In Jalukbari LAC in Kamrup district, it is a clean sweep by the Congress. Barring three GP member seats, all the seats were won by the Congress. > > Cong sweeps in Tinsukia and Sadiya; Margherita goes to BJP> >From our Reporter > TINSUKIA, Jan 29: Barring Margherita subdivision where the BJP dominated the scene, the Congress came out winner in Tinsukia and Sadiya subdivisions in Tinsukia district where the results of the panchayat polls were declared today. > In Tinsukia subdivision, 10 of the 13 zila parishad (ZP) seats were won by the Congress, while the remaining three went to the AGP. Of the 53 anchalik parishad (AP) member seats in the subdivision, the Congress won 35, AGP 14, BJP three and Independent one. The Congress won 38 of the 53 gaon panchayat (GP) president seats in the subdivision, while the AGP got 11, BJP three and Independent one. Of the 530 GP member seats in the subdivision, the Congress got the lion’s share of 266 seats, followed by the AGP 139, BJP 87, Independent 22, CPI(ML) 11 and NCP one. > In Margherita subdivision of the district, the BJP dominated the scene by winning three of the five ZP seats leaving one each for the Congress and the AGP. Of the 21 AP member seats in the subdivision, the BJP won nine, followed by Congress seven, AGP four and Independent one. The BJP won 10 of the 21 GP president seats, while the Congress, the AGP and Independents got six, three and two seats respectively in the subdivision. Of the 210 GP member seats in the subdivision, the BJP won 83, Congress 67, AGP 37 and Independent one.> The Congress performed better in Sadiya subdivision of the district by winning 13 of the 20 ZPC seats. The AGP won four and the BJP three. The Congress won 10 of the 12 AP member seats in the subdivision, leaving two for the AGP. The BJP drew a blank. The Congress won eight of the 12 GP president seats in the subdivision, leaving two each for AGP and Independent candidates. The ruling party got 66 of the 120 GP member seats in the subdivision, while the AGP won 34, BJP four, CPI(ML) one and Independent 15 seats.> > Cong win in Jorhat> >From our Correspondent> JORHAT, Jan 29: The Congress has retained power in the rural local bodies in Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi’s home district. The ruling party drubbed the Opposition parties in the electoral race for the seats available under the four categories of the three-tier panchayati raj system in Jorhat, Titabor and Majuli subdivisions. > The Congress held on to 21 out of the 23 zila parishad constituencies here. It had all the 23 seats in its kitty in the last zila parishad. The regional Asom Gana Parishad wrested the Porbotia and Kathalguri Zila Parishad constituencies this time around. The ruling party pocketed all the four seats of zila parishad in Majuli. > Significantly, the AGP was annihilated in two of its strongholds – 48 Namoni Charaibahi Gaon Panchayat and 53 Uttar Garmur Gaon Panchayat – with the Congress achieving 100 per cent success in these two gaon panchayats. Former minister and AGP general secretary Hitendra Nath Goswami is a resident under the former gaon panchayat, while the latter is the home of the president of the Jorhat district unit of the regional party, Jagat Das. > It may be mentioned here that barring the Congress and the AGP, none of the other political parties in the fray could bag any seats other than those of gaon panchayat member. The independent candidates, however, fared better with six seats of anchalik panchayat member and five seats of gaon panchayat president besides 119 seats of gaon panchayat member.> _______________________________________________> assam mailing list> assam at assamnet.org> http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
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