Guwahati: Raijor Dal president Akhil Gogoi is the only prominent opposition leader in Assam who managed to win the assembly polls and retain his seat, according to the Election Commission on Monday.Gogoi retained Sibsagar for the second consecutive term, defeating BJP’s Kushal Dowari by 17,272 votes.The opposition leader polled 86,521 votes compared to Dowari’s 69,249.Gogoi,…
Guwahati: Congress ran an aggressive campaign for the Assam assembly polls, including attacks on chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s family, but still failed to improve its electoral position like in the previous two elections.Its support remained concentrated in “Miya” Muslim-majority constituencies, where AIUDF lost relevance, leaving Congress with a narrow and isolated voter base. The…
Guwahati: Regionalism in Assam, once the dominant force shaping state’s politics, remains at its weakest. Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), born out of the historic Assam movement against Bangladeshi infiltrators and twice forming the govt, has steadily declined since the rise of BJP.This election was yet another test, and the party which had been reduced to…
Guwahati: Five defectors, including four former Congress leaders, won seats in the Assam election, with former Nagaon MP Pradyut Bordoloi and former Assam Congress president Bhupen Kumar Borah among the most prominent victors.Bordoloi, who quit Congress dramatically, was handed a last-minute ticket from the high-profile Dispur constituency in Guwahati. He was expected to face a…
Kokrajhar: Monday’s results of the Assam assembly elections delivered a “ruthless verdict” in favour of the Hagrama Mohilary-led BPF in the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR). After the final results, BPF and NDA made a near-total sweep of the 15 newly carved out assembly seats, following the 2023 delimitation. This was possible after Mohilary decided to…
Guwahati: Women representation in the next assembly will remain unchanged at seven, mirroring the previous strength in the House. Altogether 59 women candidates were in fray this time against 81 in 2021.In the 2021 assembly elections, three of the seven women candidates fielded by BJP secured victory, while two from Congress managed to win out…
Dibrugarh: In upper Assam’s tea garden belt, comprising Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Jorhat, Sivasagar, Charaideo and Golaghat districts, the BJP and its ally, AGP, swept all 25 assembly seats, underlining the decisive role of the mostly Adivasi tea garden voters. While the BJP won 23 seats, AGP secured two.In these five districts of the upper Assam region,…
Guwahati: The 2026 election was the first where Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma was the face, front and centre of BJP, rather than its backroom strategist and he delivered the finest, steering his party well past the majority mark of 64 in the assembly for the first time, while handing NDA its third straight…
Silchar: The political landscape of the Barak Valley witnessed a tectonic shift on Monday as BJP secured a commanding lead in nine out of the 13 newly-delimited assembly constituencies. The performance marks a significant upswing for the saffron party compared to the 2021 elections, where NDA managed only six seats against the then-opposition alliance’s nine.Trends…
Guwahati: Post delimitation, the number of assembly seats in Guwahati rose from four to five, yet the outcome remained unchanged, with the NDA once again sweeping the city.In the 2021 assembly election, all four Guwahati seats had gone to the NDA, underlining its continued dominance in the urban capital.In this election, attention was centred sharply…
