Trinamool Congress to contest Assam panchayat polls highlighting NRC issue

West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress will start its electoral journey in neighbouring Assam with the panchayat elections scheduled in December, Firhad Hakim, the party’s observer for Assam announced in Guwahati on Monday.
Hakim, who is the urban development minister in Mamata Banerjee’s cabinet, was in Assam to meet the family members of the five Bengalis killed in Tinsukia district on November 1 by unknown assailants.
“With the panchayat elections, our journey in Assam starts. We will fight in the name of the five martyrs and fight for the rights of those whose names were struck off the NRC’s list. They have been dubbed as doubtful voters and are being sent to detention camps,” Hakim said, while addressing condolence meet for the five victims organised by the state unit of Trinamool Congress at ITA Auditorium, Machkhowa, Guwahati.

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