Decision due to poor performance in Muslim dominated areas
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New Delhi – Despite winning a majority in the recent assembly elections in Assam, the BJP has not been able to make inroads in any of the eight Muslim-majority seats. Therefore, the BJP State executive has decided to dissolve all branches of the minority cell in the State.
Assam BJP disbands its minority cell after failing to make inroads in the Muslim-dominated areas in assembly electionshttps://t.co/1LFPLNVwcf
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1. In a statement, the BJP State president Ranjit Das said, “All committees of the BJP minority cells at the State, District and Mandal levels are being disbanded. Our party has women, youth and various other activists. There is also a minority cell which fielded candidates in some minority-dominated constituencies; however, at many booths in these constituencies, their candidates did not get even 20 votes”.
2. BJP State Minority Front Chief Mukhtar Hussain Khan said that he did not know the exact reason behind this decision. He said that the party did not get the votes as expected in many places.