Podcast: NL Interview with Wasbir Hussain

It’s Bharatiya Janata Party’s first government in Assam and the party has managed to oust Congress, which has governed the state for 15 years. How did it happen? Newslaundry’s Subhabrata Dasgupta talks to journalist, political commentator and author Wasbir Hussain about how BJP was able to woo the voters in Assam to craft a historic victory in the recent Assembly elections. Hussain is the Executive Director of the Centre for Development & Peace Studies. He has written extensively on the northeast, and security developments in its immediate neIghbourhood.