Election Politics in Assam: Issues, Trends and People’s Mandate

by Abu Nasar Saied Ahmad, Joydeep Baruah, Ratna Bhuyan

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This book Election Politics in Assam: Issues, Trends and Peopleâ€™s Mandate is a product of an extensive research by the Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and development, Guwahati, with a financial support from the India Council of Social Science research, new Delhi. It provides an insight into the election politics in the State of Assam taking the Lok Sabha poll of 2004 as the focal point. It covers various issues on which the lections were fought, highlights the nature of campaigns launched by the contenders, scans the process of nomination of the candidates, presents the role of media during the electioneering and finally provides an analysis of the popular mandate. It also indicates the trend in the elections, based on a dispassionate analysis of the political developments over a period of ten years. The volume has a rich academic texture with tables, Maps, profiles of certain constituencies, case studies, analyses of shifts in peopleâ€™s choice and a useful bibliography.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Abu Nasar Saied Ahmad

Abu Nasar Saied Ahmad is the Director of Omeno Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development at Guwahati. Before joining the Institute in 1999 he had served Dibrugarh University as a Professor of Political Science. A recipient of Fulbright Post Doctoral Fellowship (1981-1982) Professor Ahmed has a brilliant academic career and also has a large number of research and popular publications to his credit.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Joydeep Baruah

Joydeep Baruah: Lecturer, OKDISCD and a young scholar with background in economic, has many scholarly and popular publications on various social issues.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ratna Bhuyan

Ratna Bhuyan : Research Associate, OKDISCD and young scholar with background in economics, has scholarly publication on economic issues concerning Indiaâ€™s North East.