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January. Nonetheless, the Modi factor will be crucial for the BJP in
Assam because the scale and depth of the party organization in the
State are not commensurate with its Lok Sabha harvest. Alliances
with regional parties such as the Asom Gana Parishad and the
Bodoland People’s Front have served to fill some gaps, rendering the
election a three-way contest between the BJP-led front, the
Congress, and Badruddin Ajmal’s All India United Democratic Front
(AIUDF).
While national issues, including the ongoing debate over nationalism,
have found a resonance in the campaign, local issues are paramount.
The nature of electoral democracy has, however, distorted the State-
level issues at play. The achievements or otherwise of 15 years of
uninterrupted Congress rule in a State that brings up the rear on most
human development indices find marginal mention. What is centre-
staged is the insider-outsider binary, with the BJP-led alliance
projecting itself as a grouping of ‘sons of the soil’ pitted against an
evasive Congress, and an AIUDF that seeks to protect the interests of
‘illegal Bangladeshis’. Such rhetoric not only glosses over the
nuanced reality of migration in Assam but also threatens to sharpen
the religious lines in a State where over 34 per cent of the population
is Muslim. Having largely left its troubled days of separatist and ethnic
militancy behind over the course of Mr. Gogoi’s terms in office, the
State cannot be allowed to be cleaved along ethno-religious lines for
political gains. As campaigning reaches fever pitch, all parties ought to
steer the discourse back to weightier issues of development and
social harmony, instead of attempting to cobble up numbers based on
ethnic and religious identities.
Note: Article “THE” can be used before any noun preferably
countable according to the context specific or non-specific.
While “A/AN” can be used before any countable noun to show its
singularity.
Article “the” is known as the definite article because it makes
things definite irrespective of their singularity and plurality.
Sometimes it is assumed that article “the” is used for plural
nouns but it is a wrong notion as article “the” is a “pointer” and
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January. Nonetheless, the Modi factor will be crucial for the BJP in
Assam because the scale and depth of the party organization in the
State are not commensurate with its Lok Sabha harvest. Alliances
with regional parties such as the Asom Gana Parishad and the
Bodoland People’s Front have served to fill some gaps, rendering the
election a three-way contest between the BJP-led front, the
Congress, and Badruddin Ajmal’s All India United Democratic Front
(AIUDF).
While national issues, including the ongoing debate over nationalism,
have found a resonance in the campaign, local issues are paramount.
The nature of electoral democracy has, however, distorted the State-
level issues at play. The achievements or otherwise of 15 years of
uninterrupted Congress rule in a State that brings up the rear on most
human development indices find marginal mention. What is centre-
staged is the insider-outsider binary, with the BJP-led alliance
projecting itself as a grouping of ‘sons of the soil’ pitted against an
evasive Congress, and an AIUDF that seeks to protect the interests of
‘illegal Bangladeshis’. Such rhetoric not only glosses over the
nuanced reality of migration in Assam but also threatens to sharpen
the religious lines in a State where over 34 per cent of the population
is Muslim. Having largely left its troubled days of separatist and ethnic
militancy behind over the course of Mr. Gogoi’s terms in office, the
State cannot be allowed to be cleaved along ethno-religious lines for
political gains. As campaigning reaches fever pitch, all parties ought to
steer the discourse back to weightier issues of development and
social harmony, instead of attempting to cobble up numbers based on
ethnic and religious identities.
Note: Article “THE” can be used before any noun preferably
countable according to the context specific or non-specific.
While “A/AN” can be used before any countable noun to show its
singularity.
Article “the” is known as the definite article because it makes
things definite irrespective of their singularity and plurality.
Sometimes it is assumed that article “the” is used for plural
nouns but it is a wrong notion as article “the” is a “pointer” and
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