Guwahati: Top Congress leaders from Assam held a crucial meeting with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Raebareli MP Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi on Thursday to discuss the party’s strategy for the 2026 Assam assembly elections.
The 2.5-hour long meeting, held at the party’s Indira Bhawan headquarters, was attended by senior leaders, including AICC general secretary KC Venugopal, deputy leader of Congress in the Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi, Assam Congress president Bhupen Borah, and Assam in-charge Jitendra Singh.
During the deliberations, the leaders underscored the need for unity and intensifying efforts to oust the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from power.
It was decided that the entire leadership in the state will unitedly take on the saffron party, besides launching an offensive against Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and highlighting the corruption during his regime.
“Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi spoke to the leadership of every state going to polls next year. They listened to us and instructed us to move forward. If we have to save democracy in Assam, the corrupt BJP government there must be uprooted,” Gaurav Gogoi said. “Everyone knows that there is an atmosphere of unrest in society. The Lanka of corruption that chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has established has to be destroyed,” Gogoi added.
In a year, the people of Assam shall discard the politics of corruption, division and vendetta.
3.5 crore people of Assam look towards the Congress to usher in this change. No amount of select-media driven propaganda can shake their resolve for transformation.
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— Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) February 27, 2025
Kharge later took to X and said, “In a year, the people of Assam shall discard the politics of corruption, division and vendetta. 3.5 crore people of Assam look towards the Congress to usher in this change. No amount of select-media driven propaganda can shake their resolve for transformation. We chaired an important meeting of @INCAssam leaders at Indira Bhawan, New Delhi, today.”
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Bora said all the leaders from Assam have taken a pledge to unitedly take on the BJP and highlight the corruption in the northeastern state during the saffron party’s rule.
He said the leaders from the state got a chance to put forward their views at the meeting and thanked the top leadership of the party for the opportunity.
