GUWAHATI, April 25 – The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Assam Pradesh on Friday thanked the electorate of the State for participating in the biggest democratic exercise and predicted the AGP-BJP alliance candidates would emerge victorious in nine Lok Sabha seats. The BJP also observed that AUDF was not much of a factor in this parliamentary election and predicted two seats for Ajmol’s party.

Addressing mediapersons here, State BJP president Ramen Deka regretted that the Congress party and government had acted as one since the start of the democratic process and alleged that the administration had created multiple hurdles for the Opposition during the campaigning period.

“It is very unfortunate that the administration had become a tool of the Congress,” alleged Deka.

Deka mentioned that the government had violated the model code of conduct on several instances. Referring to Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s meeting with businessmen at Millennium Hotel, Athgaon, Guwahati on April 22 at 8.30 pm, Deka said that it was a very serious offence and was in violation of the election norms.

“We view this as a clear violation of code of conduct. We had reported the matter in advance to Narendra Upadhaya, in-charge of election code of conduct for Gauhati parliamentary constituency over phone,” said Deka.

Deka informed that the party has submitted a written complaint to the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) demanding an investigation into the matter and necessary action.

It may be mentioned here that the BJP has also submitted a written complaint to the CEO over the incident of alleged snatching of relevant papers by Congress candidate for Gauhati Lok Sabha seat Robin Bordoloi at polling stations 151 and 152 at Chandmari around 2.30 pm from the presiding officers.

The party has alleged large-scale rigging at polling stations 49, 54, 73 and 78 at Paneri under Mangaldoi parliamentary constituency and has demanded re-polling in all these stations.

The party has demanded re-polling at polling station 13 of Mahmora LAC under Jorhat parliamentary constituency and at polling station 91 under Mangaldoi parliamentary constituency as the EVMs were out of order and many voters had returned home without casting their votes.