Assam 2021 Polls: A Guide to the Most Critical Races
Results will be declared on May 2.
Politics30/Apr/2021
New Delhi: In the 2016 assembly elections, the BJP was in a pre-poll alliance with the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the Bodo Peopleâs Front (BPF). Together, the three parties won 86 of the 126 assembly seats of the state. While the AGP contested 24 seats and won 14, the BPF contested 16 seats and won 12 of them.
The Congress which had ruled the state for three consecutive terms under the chief ministership of Tarun Gogoi, contested 122 seats in the 2016 assembly polls but could win only 26 of them. It lost 53 seats in that election and was forced to form the opposition. In May 2016, a BJP-led government was formed with Sarbananda Sonowal as its chief minister.
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Addressing a rally in Naharkatia in poll-bound Assam s Dibrugarh district, the senior BJP leader said that the Congress has failed to carry out any developmental work in the northeastern States
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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and BJP leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan with Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal during an election campaign rally, ahead of state assembly polls, at Naharkatia in Dibrugarh district, Monday, March 15, 2021.
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Addressing a rally in Naharkatia in poll-bound Assam s Dibrugarh district, the senior BJP leader said that the Congress has failed to carry out any developmental work in the northeastern States
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Former CM Prafulla Kumar Mahanta not to contest Assam Assembly election
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Announcement comes after AGP denies him ticket
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Announcement comes after AGP denies him ticket
Former Assam Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta will not contest the upcoming Assam Assembly elections, his wife and former MP Jayashree Goswami Mahanta said late on Monday.
The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), of which Mr. Mahanta was the founder-president in 1985, had denied ticket to him and three other MLAs – Utpal Dutta from the Lakhimpur constituency, Naren Sonowal from Naharkatia and Satyabrata Kalita from Kamalpur.
The two-time former Chief Minister has been representing the Barhampur constituency in central Assam’s Nagaon district since 1991. His pet seat went to AGP’s ally BJP following a seat-sharing agreement in New Delhi on March 5.