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The conflict for Assam volition participate its last signifier with the counting of votes connected Monday (May 4, 2026). The Congress-led beforehand of six parties hopes to shed the Opposition tag by preventing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) from scoring a hat-trick of wins aft the April 9 Assembly predetermination which saw a highest-ever elector turnout of 85.96%.
Counting of votes from EVMs and postal ballots volition instrumentality spot astatine 40 counting centres crossed each 35 districts amid choky information arrangements. Altogether 722 candidates, including 59 women, contested the polls with the Congress fielding the astir candidates astatine 99, followed by the BJP (90), the AIUDF (30), the AGP (26), and the UPPL (19).
For afloat sum connected Assam Assembly polls
Both alliances are gung-ho astir bagging astatine slightest 64 seats, the elemental bulk people successful the 126-member Assembly. While the Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma-helmed BJP has predicted adjacent to 100 seats for the NDA, the Gaurav Gogoi-steered Congress is assured of a akin fig for the Asom Sonmilito Morcha (ASM) to instrumentality to powerfulness aft 10 years.
The verdict successful Assam is expected to interaction the different northeastern States going to the polls successful the adjacent fewer years. The BJP’s imagination of putting the eight-State region, erstwhile considered its “final frontier”, connected the saffron representation began erstwhile it won the Assam predetermination successful 2016, ending 15 years of Congress rule.
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