Assam Race — It'll Be Fight In The Middle Of Me And Modi: Gogoi

Assam CM Tarun Gogoi on Friday said the forthcoming Assembly surveys will be a fight between two "officers" — himself and PM Narendra Modi. He (Modi) is their facade. He is BJP's universal. I encompass likewise turned into the general of my gathering. Both officers will battle one another, he said. He is not going to be CM. He will just battle. In a roundabout way, it demonstrates the state BJP pioneers are unequipped for confronting me and he doesn't have trust in them, he said.

It appears Gogoi's stand is motivated by that of Nitish Kumar in the keep running up to Bihar surveys when he anticipated the race as a battle between the local and the pariah and effectively bested the high-decibel BJP crusade.

The Assam CM, notwithstanding, has no arrangements of producing a terrific cooperation, as was shaped in Bihar. He said he inclines toward a maha understanding  over a mahajot.

The 79-year-old three-time CM met Congress VP Rahul Gandhi on Thursday night to finish the gathering's survey technique. He said Rahul has abandoned it to the state Congress authority to settle on the cooperation inquiry.

I am going on your own. There will be no mahajot. There will be a maha understanding. Understanding among every one of the gatherings restricted to common strengths… there will be no seat sharing… understanding means the point ought to be the same, to overcome BJP. For instance, I say vote in favor of the AGP yet not for the BJP. Either vote in favor of me or for some other mainstream party, however not for the BJP," he told The Indian Express.

Asom Gana Parishad has made it clear that it would challenge the surveys, due in April, alone. Badruddin Ajmal's AIUDF is another key player, yet Congress fears a partnership with the gathering would drive Hindu voters to BJP camp. Sources said the thought would be to go for seat-particular strategic comprehension— Congress and AIUDF and perhaps AGP will field feeble hopefuls in every others' bastions.

Gogoi conceded that it would be an "extreme" race and immediately included, each race for me is an intense decision. There is against incumbency to a degree, however my improvement work will prevail (it),he said. On whether he would be his gathering's CM face, he said: Everybody's face will be there. In any case, I will be the chief, he said.

Assaulting Modi, Gogoi said at no other time has the nation confronted so much social disharmony. Disdain and disharmony, which is obvious now, was not there amid Vajpayee's chance. Both have a place with the same belief system. Take a gander at the suicide episode in Hyderabad. A vast area of minorities and Dalits don't have trust in.