The AGP, an alliance partner of the ruling BJP-led combine in Assam, on Sunday released its third list of candidates containing 13 names, including minister Phani Bhushan Choudhury and Bhojpuri singer Kalpana Patowary, for the assembly polls in the state. Names of three sitting MLAs also feature in the list declared by the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) general secretary Ramendra Narayan Kalita for the third and last phase of polling on April 6. Apart from Phani Bhushan Choudhury who will contest from Bongaigaon, the other sitting MLAs are Kalita himself who will be in the fray from Guwahati West and Gunindra Nath Das from Barpeta constituency.
Days After Quitting, Assam MLA Who Wasn t Named For Polls, Returns To BJP Assam Assembly Election 2021: The BJP is now negotiating with upset sitting MLAs in several constituencies where the party has fielded new candidates to avoid votes getting divided.
Updated: March 13, 2021 4:50 pm IST
Assam Assembly Election 2021: Shiladitya Dev is among the BJP 12 MLAs denied tickets.
Guwahati:
Assam MLA Shiladitya Dev, who gave his resignation to the BJP earlier this week after he was denied a ticket to contest the assembly election, has returned to the party fold as the BJP said he will continue to remain in the party as an important member .
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Curious things happen in politics stranger than leaders switching sides to embrace ideologically opposite parties. But Golaghat constituency in Assam presents a picture bordering on the bizarre. MLA Ajanta Neog is the BJP candidate for the seat and she is up against a familiar foe, Bitopan Saikia of the Congress. That is not the story. In 2016, Neog was the Congress candidate and Saikia was with the BJP. Neog joined the BJP recently and was named the Golaghat candidate. A miffed Saikia found a new home in the Congress. Golaghat is a sub-plot in the unfolding theatre in Assam Elections 2021. But it gives an idea about the political churning: the ruling BJP is luring ‘winnable’ leaders while opposition parties are hedging their bet on ‘discards’. Even that is not the entire story. Five years after winning Assam a traditional Congress stronghold for the first time, the BJP is facin
Miffed BJP MLA agrees to campaign for party
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Two sitting Assam MLAs of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party Dilip Kumar Paul and Shiladitya Dev resigned from the party on Thursday after they were denied tickets to contest the coming Assembly elections in the state.. Image Source: IANS News
Guwahati, March 13 : Two days after quitting the party, a BJP MLA in Assam on Friday announced to campaign for the saffron party while another legislator submitted nomination as an independent candidate.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party so far this time denied party tickets to 10 sitting legislators and a Minister Sum Ronghang.
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