[Assam] Local Elections

[Krishnendu Chakraborty]

Or may be .... voters could not trust a party that
fragmented, joined and fragmented again .. all in less
then 10 -15 years;   whose leaders have number of
scnadals behind them;  whose leaders are busy blaming
each other then anything else .... the list continues

Disclaimer:  I am no fan of Congress either

>>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>
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>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.>
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