Chief of Army Staff, Gen Bipin Rawat’s remarks on the growth of the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) in Assam have caused a furore – and not without reason. “There is a party called AIUDF. If you look at it, they have grown in a faster time-frame than the BJP grew over the years. The BJP won only two seats in the 1984 national election.
The AIUDF is moving at a faster pace in Assam. I do not think you can now change the population dynamics of the area. If it was five districts to eight to nine, inversion has taken place, whichever be the government,” Gen ...
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First Published: Mon, February 26 2018. 05:44 IST
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