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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma connected Tuesday (February 24, 2026) said that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) would finalise its seat-sharing statement for the upcoming Assembly elections by mid-March.
The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL) were the allies of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) successful the 2021 Assembly elections. While the erstwhile continues to beryllium an ally, determination is nary clarity astir the presumption of the second aft the BJP befriended its determination rival, Bodoland People’s Front (BPF), pursuing the Bodoland Territorial Council elections successful September 2025.
The Chief Minister said discussions with confederation partners were astatine an precocious stage. “Everything is moving successful the close direction, and I deliberation the seat-sharing and the names of candidates volition beryllium finalised by March 15-16,” helium told journalists successful Bokajan successful cardinal Assam’s Karbi Anglong district.
Assam has 126 Assembly constituencies. In 2021, the BJP, AGP, and UPPL contested 93, 22, and 11 seats, winning 60, nine, and six of them, respectively.
Speculation is rife that the BJP whitethorn allot less than 22 seats to the AGP successful the forthcoming polls, apt by April. The AGP is besides expected to contention a important fig of seats successful Muslim-dominated areas, wherever the BJP has constricted electoral prospect.
The UPPL, connected the different hand, is caught successful a web of uncertainty astir the alliance. “What is definite is that our confederation (with the BJP) continues to date,” enactment president Pramod Boro said. Both the UPPL and the BFP are eyeing 15 Assembly constituencies crossed 5 districts nether the Bodoland Territorial Council. The BPF had severed its ties with the BJP earlier the 2021 polls and concisely aligned with the Congress.
Meanwhile, the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) has requested the Congress to enactment its president, Badruddin Ajmal, arsenic a Rajya Sabha nominee.
AIUDF person Rafiqul Islam said his enactment had written to the Congress, recalling past governmental cooperation. “We stated that we person ever supported Congress successful the President and Rajya Sabha elections. The upcoming Rajya Sabha predetermination is simply a bully accidental for them to instrumentality the favour, arsenic they ever accidental they would,” helium said.
Three Rajya Sabha members from Assam—Bhubaneswar Kalita and Rameswar Teli of the BJP and autarkic subordinate Ajit Kumar Bhuyan—are acceptable to discontinue successful April. Elections to the seats volition beryllium held connected March 16.
Like the BPF, the AIUDF was portion of the Congress-led Mahajot successful 2021 but exited the expansive confederation earlier than the BPF.
