STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: Ruling alliance candidates – Bhubaneswar Kalita of the BJP and Biswajit Daimary of the BPF – and Congress-AIUDF combine’s common candidate journalist Ajit Kumar Bhuyan were elected to the Rajya Sabha from Assam. Returning Officer (RO) Amarendra Narayan Deka officially announced the election of the three candidates to the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday when the last date of withdrawal of nominations was over.
The election was slated to be held on March 26. However, with the number of candidates becoming same as the number of vacant seats from the State, the election was not necessitated.
Two of the three seats fell vacant due to the resignation of Bhubaneswar Kalita and Sanjay Singh, both as
Congress members of the Upper House from Assam at that time. The duo joined the BJP later. The third seat is going to be vacant in April when the six-year-term of BPF MP Biswajit Daimary is going to expire.
Talking to the media, Bhubaneswar Kalita said, “I’ll try my best to raise the issues of Assam in the Upper House.”
Ajit Kumar Bhuyan said, “My win has defeated the four-year-long rule of the BJP in the State. The people of Assam know what I did as a journalist in the past decades. I’ll try to raise the core issues of the State in the Rajya Sabha.”