BJP Wins Assam Civic Polls, AAP Makes Stunning Debut

Guwahati: As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday secured an overwhelming victory in the Assam civil polls, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) too entered the northeast as its made debut with two seats after Delhi, Punjab and Gujarat.

The AAP candidate Dhiraj Kumar Singh won from ward no 11 in Tinsukia while Udita Das won from Ward no 14 in Lakhimpur.

Taking to the micro-blogging site Twitter, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal congratulated his candiates and said that honest politics started in Assam too!

Singh, who won by 183 votes defeated Hemant Sharma who is a Former Vice Chairman of Tinsukia Municipal Board and four-time ward commissioner.

On the other hand, Udita Das also won with a huge margin of votes.

The AAP had fielded 39 candidates in 80 municipalities of which three nominations were rejected and one candidate withdrew his papers and eventually the numbers came to 35.

Apart from these two candidates, two other AAP candidates named Prerna Karnani and Priya Malakar, stood second from ward number 6 and 7.

Meanwhile, the voters didn't let BJP down as the saffron party swept majority of the Municipal boards across the state.

The BJP has fielded 825 candidates, while the Congress fielded 706 candidates and the AJP nominated 243 candidates.

As many as 70 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the Assam Municipal Election 2022 on Sunday, which ended peacefully. Fortunately, no untoward incident was reported, and no request for re-poll from any part of the state has been received.

The electronic voting machines (EVM) were used instead of ballot paper for the first time in the state's history.

Notably, in February, Sarma had claimed that the BJP-led state government had won 60 wards uncontested, including the municipality Board of North Guwahati & Sootea.

He further said that this is a reflection of the unwavering support of people of Assam towards the development agenda of our BJP-led alliance.

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