NH blockade by disgruntled BJP workers over party candidate for Doomdooma LAC

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DOOMDOOMA: More than hundreds of disgruntled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers blocked the NH-37 on Friday demanding the party leadership to nominate Tinsukia district president Lakheswar Moran as party candidate from Doomdooma LAC.

Though the names of the party's candidates have not been declared, it has been widely circulated in the media that the BJP will field Tinsukia MLA and Minister of State for Labour and Tea-Tribes Welfare, Sanjay Kishan this time as its party candidate from Doomdooma LAC.

The party workers, while expressing strong resentment against this, told media persons that they would not accept any challan (outsider) candidate and would rather prefer a local candidate from the Moran community.

On the other hand, Asam Moran Sabha (AMS) Doomdooma branch demanded the BJP leadership to field a candidate from the Moran community in Doomdooma LAC. In a press statement, Bhogeswar Baruah and Diganta Moran, president and secretary respectively of AMS, Doomdooma branch, demanded all political parties to field Moran candidates in all the five constituencies of Tinsukia district, i.e. Doomdooma, Sadiya, Digboi, Margherita and Tinsukia, as the district is predominantly inhabited by people of the Moran community.

Again, the Assam Tea Tribes Students' Association (ATTSA) demanded all political parties to nominate tea-tribes candidates in Tinsukia, Doomdooma and Digboi constituencies. Addressing a press meet on Wednesday, Babul Panika and Tokla Gowala, president and secretary respectively of ATTSA, Doomdooma branch, said that the tea-tribes community people were in majority in these three assembly constituencies. They strongly opposed the proposed move of the BJP to field Tinsukia MLA and MoS Labour and Tea Tribes Welfare, Sanjay Kishan as party candidate from Doomdooma LAC. They demanded the BJP not change Sanjay Kishan's Tinsukia constituency as in that event they would have to lose one MLA belonging to the tea tribes community as incumbent MLA Durga Bhumij belongs to their community.

In the meanwhile, ATTSA Tinsukia District Committee also opposed the move to shift the constituency of Tinsukia MLA Sanjay Kishan. In a press meet held recently, they also warned that if the BJP leadership did not nominate tea-tribes community candidates for Tinsukia, Digboi and Doomdooma constituencies, then ATTSA would also be compelled to give a fitting reply to the ruling party in the forthcoming assembly election.

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