Guwahati:
As many as 22 candidates of the opposition alliance in Assam have been flown to Jaipur and sequestered in a lodge for “safekeeping” amid fears that the BJP could attempt to lure them away forward of election outcomes due subsequent month, sources mentioned on Friday.
The candidates from the Congress-led opposition alliance often called Mahajot embrace these from the Maulana Badruddin Ajmal-led All India United Democratic Entrance (AIUDF).
They’ve been saved in the identical resort within the capital metropolis of Congress-ruled Rajasthan the place the social gathering’s MLAs have been holed up final July throughout its inner disaster.
“It is now a development because the BJP tries to interrupt the Congress after dropping elections. In order that they (allies) need to take guard,” Congress’s Randeep Singh Surjewala mentioned, confirming the developments.
Assam, the place the BJP got here to energy within the final elections, voted for a brand new authorities in three phases between March 27 and April 6. The outcomes are due on Might 2 together with these for polls in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry.
The Mahajot or “Grand Alliance” is a 10-party coalition consisting of the AIUDF, Jimochayan (Deori) Folks’s Social gathering (JDPP), Adivasi Nationwide Social gathering (ANP), CPM, CPI, CPI (ML), Anchalik Gana Morcha, Bodoland Folks’s Social gathering (BPF) and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), in addition to the Congress.