It was a historic day in the politics of Assam and the local media couldn’t get enough of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies as BJP came to power in the state for the very first time on Thursday.

On Friday, pictures of Sarbananda Sonowal, BJP’s 53-year-old chief ministerial candidate, were splashed across the front pages of almost all local newspapers in the state. The Assam Tribune went with “Landslide victory for BJP alliance” and the accompanying visual was of Sonowal flashing a victory sign, making his way to the party headquarters in Guwahati upon his arrival from Majuli.

The Sentinel’s front page read “Hope in Change”, and carried a photograph of Sonowal during his victory rally in Guwahati. Eastern Chronicle’s front page screamed “The Lotus Song”. Their page one anchor, titled “Rajiv Bhawan weeps in silence; Gogoi wishes Sonowal”, captured the mood in the Congress party headquarters on May 19, 2016 – a day the paper calls the “darkest” in the annals of state Congress’s history. The visual that accompanied the article was of outgoing Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, posing with his family right after Congress’s win in the 2011 polls. It’s aptly captioned “Blast from the past”.

The Guwahati edition of The Telegraph — whose flagship Calcutta edition has been making news of late because of its hard-hitting headlines — simply said “BJP tastes victory”. It sounds straightforward, but then there’s the saffron-coloured font and a subhead that read “Miffed protégé, dynasty and influx planks sink Congress”. The article said that Gogoi had to pay the price for a “biological heir bias”, referring to the falling out between the outgoing CM and his former Cabinet minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. Unhappy with the growing profile of Gogoi’s son Gaurav in the party, Sarma along with nine legislators switched over to the BJP earlier last year. Sarma, who won from Jalukbari by 85,935 votes, and will be an integral part of the new government if The Telegraph’s report is to be believed.

The Times of India’s Northeast editionread, “BJP, allies knock Cong out of Assam”. The paper’s front page also records how the road ahead will not be entirely ‘smooth’ for Sonowal, listing the top issues on his to-do list – the Bangladeshi influx issue, upgradation of the National Register of Citizens and peace talks with militant outfits.

When it came to the Assamese newspapers, the headlines and front pages were far more colourful. Assamiya Khabar’s headline read “BJPr Tsunamit Uson Congress” (“BJP tsunami obliterates Congress”). The paper’s front page also records how barring four, all other ministers of the Gogoi cabinet have lost their seats.

A report on the front page of the paper also claimed credit for having reported ten years ago that BJP was eyeing Sonowal, then an Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) leader. The old report, dated June 17, 2006, was titled “Sarba kni boleio laise BJPye”(“BJP is out to get Sarba”).

Niyamiya Barta, a paper owned by Himanta Biswa Sarma’s wife, splashed a photo of the leader offering sweets to Sonowal, with the headline “BJPr Tsunamit tosnos Congress” (“Congress destroyed in BJP’s tsunami”) on its front page. Another news item reports on how there has been lot of discussion in the national media on Sarma.

Another newspaper to employ the tsunami pun was Asomiya Protidin, whose front page read “BJPr Tsunami” (“BJP’s tsunami”). Bengali daily Dainik Jugasankha carried a clever headline “Ebar Sarba-anandaraaj”, a play on BJP’s 2014 Lok Sabha election slogan “Abki baar Modi sarkar”. Sonowal’s first name Sarbananda means “Happiness everywhere”.

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