Assam Congress To Cut Ties With Key 'Mahajot' Allies Over "BJP Praise"

A Congress core-committee meeting observed that alliance partner AIUDF's "continuous praise" for the BJP and Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has baffled the members of Congress.

The Assam Congress has decided to sever ties with two of its key allies in the state with whom the party took on the BJP-led alliance in this year's assembly polls. The much hyped 10-party 'Mahajot' is all set to collapse as the party's state unit division writing to the high command to break the alliance with Lok Sabha MP Badruddin Ajmal led-AIUDF and Hagrama Mohilary's Bodoland Peoples Front. A core-committee meeting presided by Assam Congress President Bhupen Borah observed that alliance partner AIUDF's "continuous praise" for the BJP and the Chief Minister has baffled the members of Congress. "The AIUDF (All India United Democratic Front) leaderships' and senior members continuously and mysteriously praising the BJP party and Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has affected the public perception of the Congress party," Congress's chief spokesperson Bobbeeta Sharma said. "In this connection, after a long discussion, the Core Committee members of APCC (Assam Pradesh Congress Committee) unanimously decided that AIUDF can no longer remain an alliance partner of 'Mahajot' and in this regard will send intimation to AICC," Ms Sharma said.