D Deka said on AssamNet:
+
+ Dear Bharat B.,
+ The voters had absolutely nothing to gain by voting for the AGP candidate, but
+everything, by going with Congress party. Yet they chose to go with AGP. If the
+voting reflects Congress party's poor choice of a candidate, then I'll say that
+Khumtai's voters understood democracy, bucking the trend in Assam and refusing money
+lures. Now my questions to you are: Why is Phukan called a thug? What did the voters
+see wrong in him? Why did Congress party choose him? Did the AGP candidate Gogoi win
+because he has a spotless record?
+ Dilip Deka
the agp candidate got something like 28k votes, and the congress
some 25k. so there are pitfalls in trying to guess what the voters
wanted to say.
what could have been crucial is the internal problems the congress
had with the tea garden votes.
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saurav
