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GUWAHATI
Assam’s Mandate 2026 marks a caller governmental travel for tribal assembly chiefs and their kin.
Tuliram Ronghang, the Chief Executive Member (CEM) of the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC), and his Rabha Hasong Autonomous Council (RHAC) counterpart Tankeswar Rabha are the Bharatiya Janata Party’s candidates from the reserved Rongkhang and Dudhnai Assembly constituencies.
A CEM is the caput of the authorities of a circumstantial tribal autonomous country wrong a State. The KAAC is 1 of 3 tribal councils nether the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution, portion the RHAC is 1 of 9 statutory autonomous councils successful Assam.
‘A caller platform’
“This is simply a caller travel for me. I transportation the aspirations and voices of our people, hoping to service them from different level of power,” Mr. Ronghang, who has been the CEM of KAAC since October 2013, said. The level helium referred to is the 126-member Assam Assembly.
Mr. Rabha, who has led the RHAC for 3 consecutive terms, is the president of the determination Rabha Hasong Joutha Mancha enactment but is contesting the Dudhnai spot connected a BJP symbol. “To beryllium successful the Assembly does not mean I volition measurement distant from my responsibilities towards the council. I volition proceed to enactment for its payment and for the improvement of the region,” helium said aft filing his information papers connected Friday (March 20, 2026).
The Bodoland People’s Front has fielded Sewli Mohilary from Kokrajhar, the Assembly constituency and office of the Bodoland Territorial Council, a Sixth Schedule area. She is the woman of Hagrama Mohilary, the main of the BTC.
“I volition effort to unrecorded up to the expectations of the radical and enactment for their improvement if elected,” she said, insisting that she does not foresee overmuch of a situation from her rivals successful the constituency, including Lawrence Islary, the MLA of the United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL).
The UPPL’s president, Pramod Boro, is simply a erstwhile CEM of the Bodoland Territorial Council. Elected to the Rajya Sabha earlier the Assam Assembly predetermination day was announced, helium is contesting the Tamulpur constituency.
Mr. Boro’s premier rival is Assembly Speaker Biswajit Daimary of the BJP. The UPPL walked retired of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance a fewer days ago.
Polling for the 126-member Assam Assembly volition beryllium held successful a azygous signifier connected April 9 and the results volition beryllium announced connected May 4.
