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in turmoil over the CAB, which was party faced defeat. Keeping alive the nominees. All India Women Congress
designed by the ruling party to help national trend, where many veteran president and sitting MP Sushmita
asylum seekers from Muslim majority Congress leaders lost the electoral bat- Dev faced defeat in Silchar LS seat,
Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh tles, voters of the region have rejected where BJP candidate Dr Rajdeep Roy
getting Indian citizenship. Numerous many influential Congress candidates. emerged the winner. The other LS seat
protest programs were organized al- While the Congress was losing its of Karimganj was won by saffron can-
most across the region targeting the vote-shares, the BJP has successfully didate and Assam Assembly deputy
BJP leadership, however the angers won two LS seats of Tripura and one speaker Kripanath Mallah defeating
did not translate into votes against seat of Manipur for the first time. his nearest rival and sitting AIUDF
the saffron party. On the contrast, the In Barak valley of Assam, where Parliamentarian Radheshyam Biswas
BJP recorded the best ever perfor- most of the people supported the CAB, in an impressive poll-battle.
mance in the region, but the grand old both the LS seats were won by BJP Promising saffron leader Dilip Sai-

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