BJP Maintains Winning Streak In The State

BJP Maintains Winning Streak In The State

GUWAHATI: The BJP-led Government has succeeded in winning the popular mandate in the State by winning nine out of 14 Lok Sabha seats.

The Lok Sabha elections result has been termed by Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal as the mandate for nationalism and faster development of a new India. Significantly, the BJP has gained two seats more than the number of seats it secured in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections in the State.

The BJP has registered its victories in Lakhimpur, Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Tezpur, Autonomous District (Diphu), Gauhati, Managaldoi, Silchar and Karimganj Parliamentary constituencies. For the first time after the 1991 Lok Sabha election, the BJP won both seats (Silchar and Karimganj) from the Barak valley. The BJP had fought the election from 10 constituencies.

While the Opposition Congress has registered its victories from Kaliabor, Nowgong and Barpeta constituencies, the AIUDF and independent candidate Naba Kumar Sarania retained their Dhubri and Kokrajhar seats respectively.

The ruling BJP’s coalition partners – the AGP and the BPF — have, however, drawn blank in the election. While the AGP had fielded its candidates in Dhubri, Barpeta and Kaliabor constituencies, the BPF contested the poll from Kokrajhar seat which is reserved for the ST candidates. In the 2014 LS elections too, both the AGP and the BPF did not win a single seat.

Even though the Congress has retained the similar number of seats that it had won in the 2014 elections, the winning constituencies for the party have, however, changed. The Congress registered victories from Kaliabor, Silchar and Autonomous District (Diphu) constituencies in 2014. The party has this time won the Kaliabor, Barpeta and Nowgong seats.

Barring Dhubri, the AIUDF has failed to retain its Barpeta and Karimganj seats that it won in 2014.

Some of the big losers in this year’s election are the Congress’s candidates Sushmita Dev, Bhubaneswar Kalita and Paban Singh Ghatowar. Sushmita who won the Silchar seat in 2014, is also the president of All India Mahila Congress. She was very vocal in the Parliament and Congress’s charismatic leader Priyanka Gandhi came to Barak Valley to campaign for Sushmita.

The defeat of the sitting Rajya Sabha MP Bhubaneswar Kalita is also very significant. Former MP and popular tea leader Paban Singh Ghatowar also lost the election by a margin of over 3 lakh votes.

In the results declared so far the Karimganj seat was won by BJP candidate Kripanath Mallah against AIUDF candidate Radhe Shyam Biswas, Dibrugarh seat by Rameswar Teli against Congress candidate Paban Singh Ghatowar, Silchar seat by Rajdeep Roy (BJP) against Sushmita Dev (Congress), Tezpur seat by Pallav Lochan Das (BJP) against MGVK Bhanu (Congress), Lakhimpur seat by Pradan Baruah (BJP) against Anil Borgohain (Congress), Mangaldoi seat by Dilip Saikia (BJP) against Bhubaneswar Kalita (Congress), Autonomous District (Diphu) seat by Horen Sing Bey (BJP) against Biren Singh Ingti (Congress), Jorhat seat by Topon Kumar Gogoi (BJP) against Sushanta Buragohain (Congress) and Gauhati seat by Queen Oja (BJP) against Bobbeeta Sarma (Congress).

In Kaliabor, Nowgong and Barpeta constituencies, Congress candidates Gaurav Gogoi, Pradyut Bordoloi and Abdul Khaleque defeated their rival candidates Moni Madhab Mahanta (AGP), Rupak Sarma (BJP) and Kumar Dipak Das (AGP) respectively.

While the AIUDF chief Maulana Badruddin Ajmal defeated his rival Congress candidate Abu Taher Bepari in Dhubri, independent candidate Naba Kumar Sarania emerged victorious in Kokrajhar constituency against the BPF candidate Pramila Rani Brahma.

The BJP has won the election by more than 3 lakh votes in Lakhimpur, Dibrugarh and Gauhati constituencies. The Election Commission has, however, not yet officially declared winning candidates from many constituencies.

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