Cong women’s wing chief miffed over seat sharing in Assam

Guwahati/Silchar, March 6 : Weeks ahead of the Assembly elections in Assam, All India Mahila Congress (AIMC) President and former Lok Sabha MP Sushmita Dev on Saturday reportedly expressed her strong resentment over the allotment of seats to Congress ally AIUDF.
A media report said that Dev, who’s the daughter of influential Congress leader and former Union minister Santosh Mohan Dev, has resigned from her post. However, the Congress leaders in Guwahati and Delhi strongly denied the report.
According to those close to Dev, she is upset with the seat allocation to AIUDF in Silchar and also about the selection of candidates for the Bengali dominated region in southern Assam.
The Congress leader on Saturday abruptly left the crucial candidates’ selection committee meeting being held in Guwahati since Thursday.
Several Assembly seats fell under the Silchar Lok Sabha constituency from where Dev was elected to the Lower House in 2014, before she lost in the 2019 general elections.
Former Assam minister Siddique Ahmed, a close follower of Dev, said that they are annoyed because some Assembly seats and Congress strongholds have been allotted to the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), ignoring the sentiments and demands of the party workers.