BJP talks welfare steps and Congress CAA, lack of work
Lakhimpur spread across Upper Assam and North bank of Brahmaputra will go to the polls on Friday. This is the first election in Assam after the delimitation exercise of last year during which constituency boundaries were redrawn after 27 years and the state's political landscape changed.
In Lakhimpur, it is a direct fight between the BJP and Congress. BJP MP Pradan Baruah, former Congress MLA, is seeking a third consecutive term from the seat against the Congress candidate Uday Shankar Hazarika. A total of nine contestants are in the fray from Lakhimpur constituency where recurring annual floods is an issue among the voters.
In Sonitpur, the Aam Aadmi Party has fielded Rishiraj Kaundinya while the Congress has nominated Prem Lal Ganju, despite being members of the INDIA bloc. The BJP has fielded its former state unit president and former minister Ranjit Dutta from the seat.
In the newly created Lok Sabha seat of Kaziranga, Congress has fielded Roselina Tirkey, a former MLA from Sarupathar while the BJP has named Rajya Sabha MP and influential tea tribe leader Kamakhya Prasad Tasa as a candidate.
The constituencies in Upper Assam have witnessed huge protests against the CAA. Assam was a traditional Congress bastion until BJP increased its tally from 7 to 9 in the 2019 parliamentary polls. The All India United Democratic Front and Independents had won one seat each while the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), an ally of BJP, drew a blank. The Congress party won three seats.
The BJP has been aggressively campaigning in the
