HT Bureau
GUWAHATI, Oct 26: Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday aimed towards Congress alleging that the opposition party has been involved in hooliganism and political violence that led to the death of a BJP worker in Samaguri.
He targeted the grand old party claiming that the opposition leaders have been orchestrating violence and undermining democracy.
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Sarma condoled the death of a BJP worker Bipul Saikia, who died due to pre-poll violence in Samaguri assembly constituency.
Taking to X handle, he wrote, “My deepest condolences to the family of our @BJP4Assam karyakarta from Samaguri, Late Bipul Saikia, who was violently attacked and killed by goons of @INCAssam.”
“Those responsible will be held accountable. This crime is a grim reminder of the Congress’ deception, those who chant “Samvidhan Bachao” are the very ones orchestrating poll violence and undermining democracy.
The sacrifice of our karyakartas shall not go in vain,” Sarma added.
To recall, following pre-poll violence in Samaguri’s Bajiagaon on Thursday, Bipul Saikia, a BJP cadre died on Friday at a hospital in Nagaon town.
After getting gravely injured in a fight between two groups, Saikia was sent to the hospital.
But on Friday, while receiving treatment at this hospital, he succumbed to his injuries, according to reports. They also stated that local police began looking into the entire incident after the youth’s death.
Five assembly constituencies in Assam will go for by-polls in the November month as these seats got vacant following the election of five MLAs to the lower house of the parliament in this year’s Lok Sabha polls.
Out of these five assembly seats, four were earlier held by the BJP and its allies. Congress has only one seat—Samaguri which is a bastion of former Assam minister Rakibul Hussain.
Hussain has been representing the Samaguri in the assembly since 2001. He has not lost a single election in the last 23 years.
The senior Congress leader challenged AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal in the Dhubri Lok Sabha seat in the parliamentary elections. This seat was held by Ajmal since 2009.
Hussain pulled a spectacular win in Dhubri by a margin of more than 10 lakh votes putting a stop to Ajmal’s hold in that seat.
Now the Samaguri assembly seat is vacant and Hussain’s son Tanjil Hussain was fielded by the Congress party to contest from this constituency in the upcoming by-poll.
However, the BJP has been eyeing to oust Congress from Samaguri this time. The ruling party has thrown its top leaders into the campaign for the bye-elections.
