Clearly the people of Khumtai voted against the misdeed of the Congress government. I understand there in internal problem among the Congressmen. But the main pont is that with money and state machinary, Gogoi, Ghatwar and Chubba could not win the election! Historically in Assam, the party in government win 80 percent of the byelections.
>From: Saurav Pathak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: D Deka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: Re: Khumtai: Money can not buy vote!
>Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 15:08:45 -0500
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>D Deka said on AssamNet:
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>+ 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
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>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.
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>what could have been crucial is the internal problems the congress
>had with the tea garden votes.
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>saurav
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