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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and the presidents of 2 non-NDA determination parties were among the apical candidates who filed their information papers connected Friday (March 20, 2026).
The predetermination to the 126-member Assam Assembly volition beryllium held connected April 9.
Mr. Sarma filed his papers for the Jalukbari constituency successful Guwahati. While Pramod Boro, the president of the United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL), submitted his information for the Tamulpur spot successful occidental Assam’s Tamulpur town, his Raijor Dal counterpart Akhil Gogoi filed his for the Sibsagar spot successful eastbound Assam’s Sivasagar town.
“I mislaid the Jalukbari spot by astir 12,000 votes successful 1996, my archetypal election. It rained earlier I submitted my papers [on Friday], which we deliberation is simply a bully sign,” helium told journalists, assured of the BJP and its determination allies putting up a “serious fight” successful 102 of the 126 seats.
Mr. Sarma is seeking predetermination from Jalukbari for the sixth consecutive term.
Mr. Boro, whose enactment walked retired of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) a fewer days aft helium was elected arsenic a Rajya Sabha member, is contesting an Assembly predetermination for the archetypal time. “We person not promised confederation oregon relationship with immoderate enactment oregon bloc,” helium told journalists aft filing his papers.
Seeking the blessings of his BJP rival and Assembly Speaker Biswajit Daimary, Mr. Boro defended the UPPL’s determination to permission the NDA. “The ruling confederation has a caller emotion (Bodoland Peoples’ Front, the UPPL’s premier rival successful the Bodoland Territorial Region, comprising 15 Assembly seats), and we person nary volition to disturb this romance,” helium said.
‘Land rights for all’
In Sivasagar, State Congress president Gaurav Gogoi accompanied Raijor Dal president Akhil Gogoi to the returning officer’s bureau erstwhile helium filed the information papers. Both parties entered into a seat-sharing woody precocious connected Thursday. “We request to physique a caller ‘Bor Asom’ (greater Assam) by ejecting Himanta Biswa Sarma from the Chief Minister’s chair. Our Bor Asom extremity is improvement and onshore rights for all, not a azygous person,” the State Congress president said.
The Raijor Dal president said his enactment could triumph 10 of the 13 seats it is contesting. “If we signifier the government, we volition springiness ₹3,000 per period to each Orunodoi beneficiary alternatively of the ₹1,250 they are getting from the BJP,” helium said.
The BJP-led authorities introduced the Orunodoi strategy successful October 2020 for families beneath the poorness line. The State authorities transferred ₹9,000 each to immoderate 40 lakh beneficiaries a fewer days earlier the predetermination was announced connected March 15. The wealth comprised 4 months of instalments and ₹4,000 arsenic bonus for the mid-April Rongali Bihu festival.
Among the different leaders who submitted their nominations connected Friday (March 20) were Ministers Ajanta Neog and Pijush Hazarika, and Congress Legislature Party person Debabrata Saikia.
