GUWAHATI: Assam Congress president Bhupen Kumar Borah has said the party will contest all the five Assembly seats where bypolls will be held.
The Congress chief said that the decision to contest all the five Assembly seats in bypolls was taken during a meeting chaired by AICC general secretary Jitendra Singh with district-level party leaders here on Monday.
Taking to his X handle, Borah said, “@INCAssam would contest all the 5 seats where byelections would be held. We would constitute 5 teams of senior leaders who would reach out to the grassroots. The Election Commission is yet to announce the bypoll dates.”
The Assembly seats of Samaguri, Behali, Dholai, Sidli, and Bongaigaon became vacant after the incumbents were elected to the Lok Sabha. Only the Samaguri seat was held by the Congress, while the rest belonged to the BJP and its allies AGP and BPF.
He said Singh will be holding further meetings with MPs, MLAs, and other leaders to strengthen the party’s organizational structure.
The party also decided to activate its Disciplinary Action Committee (DAC) to expedite the resolution of all pending disciplinary cases, Borah added.
On the party’s opposition to the Citizenship Amendment Act, Borah said, “We reiterated our opposition to CAA, and reminded ourselves of the commitment made by Rahul Gandhi to remove CAA after coming to power.”
The party’s reaffirmation of its opposition to the Act came in the backdrop of the state government issuing a directive to its Border Police wing not to refer cases of non-Muslim illegal immigrants who entered the state before 2015 to the Foreigners Tribunal and instead advise them to apply for citizenship through CAA.
