Cong reduced to a dwarf, Gogoi says never imagined it would be so bad

By afternoon when trends became pretty clear, Gogoi accepted the verdict but not before saying that he had not imagined it to be so bad. “It was because of a huge communication failure on our part. While we failed to communicate our good things to the people, the BJP mounted a publicity blitzkrieg in a typical corporate style which we could not match,” he told The Indian Express.

Assam, however, also witnessed the rise of the AIUDF in this election, with the party’s tally going up from one in 2009 to three this time. While president Badruddin Ajmal retained Dhubri by a huge margin over the nearest Congress candidate Wajed Ali Choudhury, his younger brother Sirajuddin won in Barpeta by defeating Chandra Mohan Patowari (BJP) by over 50,000 votes.