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Assam is heading for elections to its Legislative Assembly, with polling scheduled for April 9, 2026. The counting of votes volition instrumentality spot connected May 4, 2026.
The State has 126 Assembly constituencies. It is presently governed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and is acceptable for a adjacent contention with the Congress.
The predetermination volition impact astir 2.50 crore registered voters crossed 31,486 polling stations. According to the Election Commission of India, 5.75 lakh young electors aged 18 years and supra volition beryllium voting for the archetypal clip successful an Assembly election. In addition, 4.16 lakh electors with disabilities, 343 3rd sex electors and 1.04 lakh elder citizens are expected to participate.
The 2 main governmental parties, the BJP and the Congress, person released their manifestos for the elections. Let’s person a look astatine the promises made by the BJP and the Congress successful their respective manifestos for Assam Assembly elections 2026.
BJP’s ‘Sankalp Patra’ vs Congress’ ‘Raijor Istahar’
While the BJP has pledged to enactment towards the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), support onshore and heritage, and further its improvement agenda, the Congress has promised Scheduled Tribe presumption for six communities, the mounting up of an Anti Corruption Commission to analyse alleged scams nether the Himanta Biswa Sarma government, the merchandise of a achromatic insubstantial connected Assam finances, and an Urban Flood Mitigation Plan.
Releasing the 31 constituent “Sankalp Patra” astatine the BJP State office successful Guwahati, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman spoke of what she described arsenic a decennary of translation successful Assam, which she said had contributed to economical maturation successful the State and the wider northeast.
“Assam continues to amusement that bid is sustainable, and that is the biggest achievement,” she said. Ms. Sitharaman added that the promises were framed connected the ground of what she called 10 years of alteration successful the State, which the Congress was incapable to present successful six decades.
Congress person Rahul Gandhi, State enactment president Gaurav Gogoi and different elder leaders released the “Raijor Istahar”, oregon radical manifesto, successful Bokajan successful eastbound Assam connected Thursday (April 2, 2026).
“Prepared based connected inputs from the radical of Assam, the manifesto sets retired applicable and realistic plans for genuine transformation. It is not conscionable a database of promises but a warrant of implementation,” Mr. Gogoi said.
BJP’s UCC push
Among the BJP cardinal promises is the implementation of the Immigrants Expulsion from Assam Act 1950 to velocity up the detection and deportation of amerciable immigrants, the removal of encroachments, and the granting of onshore rights to genuine citizens.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the manifesto focuses connected protecting onshore and radical of the State. He said the authorities would fortify ineligible measures to safeguard the civilisation, practice and rights of the radical of Assam by moving towards a Uniform Civil Code, excluding Sixth Schedule areas and tribal communities, portion protecting the customary rights of taste groups.
The enactment besides pledged to framework a instrumentality to code what it described arsenic emotion jihad and instrumentality beardown enactment against onshore jihad.
Congress’s ST presumption promise
In the manifesto, Congress has committed to completing 5 cardinal tasks wrong the archetypal 100 days of forming a authorities to physique nationalist trust, followed by institution-building wrong a twelvemonth and structural translation wrong 5 years.
The manifesto lists 28 commitments, including 5 guarantees announced earlier by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge.
These see justness for the precocious Zubeen Garg, fiscal enactment of ₹50,000 for women to commencement tiny businesses, and onshore rights for 10 lakh indigenous people.
A large committedness is the granting of Scheduled Tribe presumption to six communities, namely Adivasis oregon Tea Tribes, Chutias, Koch Rajbongshis, Mataks, Morans and Tai Ahoms. The Congress said these groups had been neglected nether the BJP government.
Welfare guarantees
The BJP manifesto promises acquisition for all, including escaped acquisition from kindergarten to postgraduate level for economically weaker sections, the instauration of satellite people institutions, and the recruitment of much teachers.
It besides committed ₹5 lakh crore successful investments to make Assam arsenic India eastbound gateway, with greater absorption connected road, rail, aerial and h2o connectivity.
The manifesto said a precocious level Accord Implementation Mission would beryllium acceptable up nether the Chief Minister to guarantee clip bound execution of each bid accords, on with efforts to instrumentality the Assam Accord.
Congress manifesto promises rehabilitation of displaced tribal communities, escaped hostels and acquisition for children of widowed mothers, precedence for widows successful housing, ration and healthcare schemes, payment boards for gig workers and transport drivers, simplification of the State indebtedness burden, revival of the beverage manufacture with amended wages and benefits, and policies aimed astatine clime resilience and biology sustainability.
It besides promised a Zubeen Garg Fellowship for young radical successful taste fields and a Centre of Excellence for Art and Culture.
The Congress manifesto besides promises constabulary reforms, accelerated way courts for corruption, onshore and cases concerning women, decentralised and show based governance with nationalist reporting, cosmopolitan healthcare and afloat schoolhouse enrolment. It besides projected a play disconnected time for constabulary personnel, a Welfare Fund for advocates and ineligible workers, and subsidised onshore for accredited journalists.
Women successful focus
The BJP said it would heighten dignity, information and economical independency of women by expanding the monthly assistance nether the Orunodoi strategy to ₹3,000 successful phases and extending sum to an further 15 lakh households. The strategy was launched successful 2020.
It besides promised a 2nd signifier fiscal assistance of ₹25,000 to existing beneficiaries and an expanded Mukhya Mantri Mahila Udyamita Abhijan programme to make 40 lakh Lakhpati Baideos. The enactment said it would found Aair Pakghor, women tally assemblage canteens, successful each territory office to service nutritious section nutrient astatine subsidised prices.
The Congress manifesto said each pistillate would person a monthly currency transportation straight into her slope account. It besides promised ₹50,000 successful assistance to assistance women commencement oregon grow their businesses.
