Assam: Asom Gana Parishad congratulates winning BJP, AGP and UPPL candidates

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) president and Agriculture minister Atul Bora and working president and Assam minister Keshab Mahanta congratulated the winning candidates of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Asom Gana Parishad and UPPL alliance for its success in the Lok Sabha elections in Assam.

Atul Bora and Keshab Mahanta opined that the election results have exposed the confidence of the people of Assam in the strong leadership of the Chief Minister of the state Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma and the development journey of the coalition government.

Stating that the election results have once again proved the strong position of the coalition government, both the AGP leaders congratulated all the winning candidates of the Asom Gana Parishad, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the UPPL. Phani Bhusan Chowdhury, the nominee of the alliance and Asom Gana Parishad, thanked the people of Assam as well as the office bearers and members of all the parties of the coalition for winning the coalition candidates by a huge margin, a press release stated. Phani Bhusan Chowdhury won from the Barpeta seat with a huge margin.

Senior BJP leader and Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal emerged victorious in the Dibrugarh Lok Sabha seat, defeating Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) candidate LurinjyotiGogoi by a margin of over 2.76 lakh votes.

The Dibrugarh LS seat witnessed a triangular contest, with Sonowal facing off against the AJP and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidates. Sonowal secured an impressive tally of 6,87,333 votes while his nearest rival, Lurinjyoti Gogoi of the AJP, managed to secure 4,11,147 votes. AAP candidate Manoj Dhanowar garnered 1,36,928 votes. A whopping 32,018 voters opted for the ‘None of the Above’ or NOTA option. A total of 6,318 votes were still to be counted till the time of filing of this report.

Sonowal’s victory is significant as it is his second win from the Dibrugarh Lok Sabha seat after 20 years. He had earlier won from this constituency in 2004 as theAsom Gana Parishad (AGP) candidate, thereby becoming the first non-Congress candidate to wrest the Dibrugarh seat. Having started his political career in the AGP, Sonowal’s eventual shift to the BJP marked a crucial turn in his political career as he went on to become the Chief Minister of Assam during 2016-21, thereafter becoming a Union Minister in the Narendra Modi cabinet.

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