Congress president Sonia Gandhi said here on Friday that the BJP, which is raking up the issue Bangladeshi infiltration, did nothing to check the influx from while in power at the Centre.

More than a month of the pre-poll slanging match between the ruling Congress and the opposition in Assam will end on Monday when the second and final phase of Assembly elections will be held in 64 of its 126 constituencies.

Former Union minister Syed Shahnawaz Hussain, the most prominent Muslim face of the BJP, said here on Thursday that there has been a significant change in the mindset of Muslim voters and Muslim youth are no more hesitant to vote for BJP.

Senior BJP leader L.K. Advani here on Wednesday extended his support to social activist Anna Hazare and advocated enactment of the Lokpal Bill by incorporating the changes in the forthcoming session of Parliament.

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi slammed the Opposition for levelling corruption charges against his government and termed it false and fabricated.
Visibly upset over the charges, Mr Gogoi told reporters, “There is not a single instance when the Opposition has been able to bring in any direct charge against me or my ministers but they have been harping on corruption just to mislead the electorate.”

BJP leader L.K. Advani here on Wednesday asked voters to ensure that their franchise did not give power to the corrupt, but to good people and the party that will work for them and the state’s welfare.

Asom Gana Parishad president Chandra Mohan Patowary here on Tuesday claimed that the first phase of polling has sealed the dream of Congress for a third term in Assam.

The Congress party has left no stone unturned to reverse the anti-incumbency factors that party was facing in Upper Assam’s Tinsukia and Dibrugarh district as in the last leg of elections the party roped in its former ministers to drum up support for the candidate.

After casting his vote, the Assam Chief Minister, Mr Tarun Gogoi, here on Monday claimed that they are going to form the government for third consecutive term in Assam.
However, the Leader of Opposition, Mr Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, looked equally confident by asserting that electorates of 62 Assembly segments where election was held on Monday have come out in large number to reject Congress party.

The pro-talk faction of outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) has decided not to exercise their franchise in the ensuing Assembly elections in Assam. Though, outfit has also decided not disrupt the democratic process of pollings.