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No anti-incumbency factor in Assam: Tarun Gogoi

By Barun Das Gupta

GUWAHATI, MAY 14. Elated by the Congress victory in Assam — it has got nine out of 14 Lok Sabha seats in the State — the Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi, today said that the people were happy over his Government's performance and that there was no "anti-incumbency'' factor in Assam.

He thanked the people for giving a decisive verdict in the battle between the "secular alliance and the communal alliance.'' One of his first tasks would be to tell the new Congress-led Government at the Centre to undo all the economic "injustice'' done to Assam by the previous NDA Government.

These include depriving Assam of its due share of the divisible pool of the Centre by the Eleventh Finance Commission and withholding of funds for flood control and other schemes.

Mr. Gogoi said there would be no "slowing down'' of the peace talks started by the previous Government with rebel groups such as the NSCN(I-M). It was Rajiv Gandhi who had initiated the peace process with China and Pakistan.

Asked if the APCC president, Paban Singh Ghatowar, would be replaced after his defeat at the Lok Sabha polls by the AGP (Mr. Ghatowar came third), Mr. Gogoi said: "The [party] high command will decide.''

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