If tea-tribe communities had the trump card in the first phase of polling in Assam’s five Lok Sabha constituencies, Muslim voters are going to play the key role in second and the third phase of polling as was visible with the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), appealing to its supporters to vote for the party opposing the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in the six of the nine seats it is not contesting this time.
Silchar, Karimganj, Autonomous District and Nagaon will go to the polls in the second phase on April 18 and Guwahati, Mangaldai, Barpeta, Kokrajhar and Dhubri will vote in the third and last phase on April 23.