The Congress on Tuesday announced candidates for 12 of the 14 Lok Sabha seats in Assam, leaving two for its allies.Party leader Gaurav Gogoi, whose Kaliabor constituency was scrapped in the delimitation exercise, will fight polls from the .
India News: Resolving the post-delimitation conundrum in Assam, Congress fielded sitting MP Gaurav Gogoi from Jorhat and retained Pradyot Bordoloi in Nagaon in As
According to sources, names of senior Congress leaders such as Ashok Gehlot, Kamal Nath, Digvijaya Singh, and Harish Rawat were not discussed during the second meeting of the Congress's Central Election Committee (CEC).
Sinha was absent from Congress events after his removal as state party chief last year. He had said several times that he had been unhappy with the way the party was being run in the state.
Major opposition parties of Assam, under the banner of United Opposition Forum Assam (UOFA), are demanding the intervention of President Droupadi Murmu to repeal the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). Various groups are up in arms against the act ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.