Congress fields son of BJP leader in southern Assam

Guwahati

The Congress has fielded the lad of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) person successful confederate Assam’s Hailakandi constituency.

Rahul Roy, a erstwhile MLA, did not permission the Congress aft his begetter and erstwhile Minister, Gautam Roy, crossed implicit to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) up of the 2021 election. Both mislaid — the erstwhile from Udharbond and the second from the Katigorah seat.

The inferior Mr. Roy, who contested the 2021 predetermination arsenic an Independent, is the Congress campaigner from the Hailakandi constituency this time. He featured successful the party’s 4th database of candidates for 7 seats, including Naoboicha, wherever Joy Prakash Das has replaced the incumbent Bharat Narah.

Among the 7 successful Bidisha Neog, who faces Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma successful Jalukbari.

Rahul Roy is the 2nd Congress campaigner with a BJP person successful the family. Prateek Bordoloi was successful the archetypal database of 42 Congress candidates released connected March 3.

However, Mr Bordoloi withdrew arsenic a campaigner from the Margherita constituency aft his MP father, Pradyut Bordoloi, discontinue Congress and joined the BJP connected March 18.

Meanwhile, the BJP named Jiban Gogoi and Krishna Saha arsenic the party’s candidates for the Sissiborgaon and Dalgaon constituencies. The second is the seventh pistillate fielded by the party.

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) besides named candidates for 17 seats successful Assam. One of them is the party’s Assam portion vice-president Dulu Ahmed, fielded from the Chamaria constituency.