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Soon after the results, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, referring to the poll debacle, claimed in an X post that leaders from a particular religion who usually do not get into politics decided to fight the NDA..
From the forum, we have never appealed to anyone to choose a party or candidate, but we do tell people to use their conscience before casting their vote, he said.. Former president and current adviser to Arunachal Christian Forum Toko Teki said, Whatever he (Sarma) said, that a particular religion has not voted in favour of the BJP or the NDA is true..
The BJP did help its allies win three of the 25 Lok Sabha seats in the region the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the United Peoples Party Liberal (UPPL) bagged Assams Barpeta and Kokrajhar seats, respectively, while NDA member Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) won the lone seat in Sikkim...
Meanwhile, NDA members such as Meghalayas National Peoples Party (NPP), Manipurs Naga Peoples Front (NPF), and Nagalands Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) failed to win the Tura, Outer Manipur and Nagaland seats they contested, respectively.The.
People have not rejected the Peoples Democratic Alliance (PDA) government in Nagaland, but the BJP for its anti-Christian and religious intolerance, said K. Elu Ndang, the general secretary of Naga Hoho, an apex body of tribal organisations in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, and Nagaland...
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