Assam Cong. orders fodder online for BJP’s ally UPPL
The Hindu
The campaign for the bypoll heightened up after CM Himanta’s remarks
The Congress in Assam has ordered cattle fodder for the Bharatiya Janata Party’s metaphorical cow — ally United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL) —ahead of the by-elections to five Assembly seats on Saturday.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had likened the UPPL to a milch cow while campaigning for its candidates in two constituencies under the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC). UPPL rules the BTC in alliance with the BJP and the local Gana Suraksha Party. It is also a constituent of the three-party government headed by the BJP in Assam.
“You will obviously buy a cow that gives milk, and not one that doesn’t in the market. Voting for Congress, AIUDF [All-India United Democratic Front] or ‘nangol party’ [a reference to plough, the symbol of Bodoland People’s Front] is like buying a cow that does not yield milk because it is not in power,” the Chief Minister said at an election rally a few days ago.
Senior BJP leader and former Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Saturday (November 23, 2024) said the landslide victory of the Mahayuti alliance in the Maharashtra Assembly election was historic, and that it reflected people’s mindset across the country. She added that the DMK would be unseated from power in the 2026 Assembly election in Tamil Nadu and that the BJP would be the reason for it.