The Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) on Friday said the BJP’s campaign for the Assembly election to be held next year will be a “failure” as people have been suffering since the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was implemented.

In the last Assembly election held in 2016, of 126 seats, the BJP and its NDA alliance had won 88, the Congress and its UPA alliance won 24 seats and the AIUDF won 14 seats.

“The BJP’s election campaign will fail. People’s pain over the Act will reflect in the polls,” said president of the AJYCP Tinsukia unit Surojit Moran.

On Tuesday, when the BJP leaders were in Tinsukia for the party’s meeting, scuffles broke out between the party workers and anti-CAA protesters at Tipuk in Tinsukia and Titabar in Jorhat districts.

Members of the All Assam Students Union (AASU) waved black flags at Assam BJP president Ranjeet Kumar Dass and Rajya Sabha MP Kamakhya Prasad Tasa.

“People have to earn their livelihood. Therefore, all of them cannot take part in the protests. Activists from the AJYCP, AASU and all other anti-CAA groups and organisations have been visiting all Upper Assam districts and spreading awareness about the Act’s ill effects. They advocate not to vote for the BJP or any other political parties. People are aware this time, it is difficult to dupe them in the name of schemes and development. People want leaders who they can rely,” Moran added.

On Thursday, members of the BJP and AASU got into a clash at Chabua in Dibrugarh after the AASU activists waved black flags at Dass, burnt his effigy and raised slogans against the Act. An AASU member was injured in the clash. Seven protesters were detained.

Moran said the recent visit by Swaraj Party leader Yogendra Yadav to the state has boosted the movement’s spirit.

Protests against CAA along National Highway 37 near Makum Tiniali in Tinsukia entered its third day on Thursday. Thousands of supporters and members of the AJYCP along with other organisations and local residents participated in the agitation.

Upper Assam has been witnessing some of the most intense protests against the law after Guwahati. Widespread protests have swept the state since the Act was introduced.

CAA allows religiously persecuted members of six non-Muslim communities from three neighbouring Islamic countries to get Indian citizenship if they had entered India before 2015.