Saurav,
What the voters definitely said are:
1.We are not voting for a party but for the candidate.
2. We do not want a candidate who does not represent us and also is corrupted.
3. If your party does not listen to our loud and clear voice before the election, we'll teach you at the polling booth.
4. Money and show of power do not always get the votes.
Here are my observations: If the voters were not disgruntled with Congress party and disenchanted with the candidate the result would have been 50K for Congress Phukan and 3K for AGP Gogoi. Also the race would have been more interesting if one or both candidates were from the tea garden labor community. Was there a third party candidate from the community? How did he fare in number of votes?
Dilipda
Saurav Pathak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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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s! aurav
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