Assam CM Tarun Gogoi Declares :  No Grand Alliance For Congress In Assam, Declares 

The Congress wants to go it alone in the Assam assembly elections, Tarun Gogoi, who is completing his third consecutive term as the state’s chief minister, has said.

One of the senior most leaders of the Congress, Mr Tarun  Gogoi told NDTV, “There is no need of any pre-poll alliance.”

“We would like to go for tactical understanding where our appeal to voters will be either vote for Congress or any such like-minded party which can defeat the BJP and its allies in the polls,” he added.

When the Grand Alliance, of which the Congress is a part, won the assembly elections in Bihar in November last year, Mr Tarun  Gogoi was among the first Congress leaders to suggest that the experiment of “anti-BJP forces” coming together be repeated in Assam and other state assembly elections.

Assam will go to the polls in April this year. Mr  #TarunGogoi latest statement puts an end to speculation regarding a possible alliance between the Congress, Badruddin Ajmal’s AIDUF and the AGP.

The Assam chief minister #TarunGogoi , who is once again projected as Congress’s chief ministerial candidate, also ruled out any threat from a proposed alliance between the BJP and Bodo parties.

Whenever these parties came together in the past, the alliance helped the Congress in the polls, he said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had hit out at Mr Tarun  Gogoi in his speech yesterday for problems faced by the state, especially shortage of electricity, during the 15 years that he has been Assam  chief minister. Mr Tarun  Gogoi hit back at PM  #NarendraModi  saying, “He always get his facts wrong and he doesn’t know that most of the rivers in Assam cannot be used for electricity generation.”