Campaigning for the third and ultimate part of Assam elections ends on Sunday as 40 seats are going to the polls on April 6. This part will witness a neck-and-neck combat between the UPA and the ruling NDA as of the 40 seats, the BJP and the Congress had received 11 every in 2016.
The 40 seats which are going to polls on Tuesday are unfold throughout 16 election districts are positioned in Lower Assam and the Bodoland Territorial Region. In the area, the Congress has been capable of preserve its tally at 11 in the final three elections.
Last Day of Campaigning
Union Home Minister Amit Shah will deal with three public rallies in Assam on Sunday. He will start his campaigning at Sarbhog, following which, he’ll journey to Bhabanipur and Jalukbari. BJP chief and state minister Himanta Biswa Sarma will resume his election marketing campaign after the Election Commission lowered the ban on him from 48 to 24 hours.
Meanwhile, forward of the final part of elections in Assam, the Congress is pulling out all of the stops to achieve most seats as get together leaders are pitching in for the campaigning.
The Congress needs to achieve all of the 40 seats in the final part and may have at the least ten rallies of Rahul Gandhi and different leaders overlaying 4 meeting seats in the world. Rahul Gandhi might pitch in on the final day of campaigning on April 4.
The Congress leaders who’re in the marketing campaign path say that the get together has a constructive suggestions in the 2 phases which went to polls until now. Congress chief Manish Tewari who’s campaigning for the get together stated, “The BJP has snatched away the special status of the state — the reduction in the centre-state sharing schemes from 90:10 during UPA to 60:40 now and progress in the state will remain a far-fetched dream without communal harmony.” He alleged that the BJP is so determined that it’s engineering a defection even in the course of the elections.
In the third part, the BJP is contesting on lesser variety of seats as many of the seats in the third part are being contested by the BJP allies. The opposition Congress and AIUDF are assured of profitable the utmost variety of seats in each the second and third phases of the polls.
Key Seats
Jalukbari: Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is contesting from the Jalukbari seat. He has persistently received the constituency since 2001.
Patacharkuchi: Assam BJP chief Ranjeet Kumar Dass is contesting from this seat. In the final election, he received from the Sorbhog constituency.
Chaygaon: Sitting Congress MLA Rekibuddin Ahmed is re-contesting from Chaygaon. He additionally received in 2011. He is contesting towards the AGP’s Dr Kamala Kanta Kalita, who had received this seat 4 instances in the previous.
Sarukhetri: Kalpana Patowary, an Assamese folks singer, is contesting on the AGP’s ticket. She is up towards sitting MLAcJakir Hussain Sikdar from the Congress.
Chapaguri: Urkhao Gwra Brahma, a Sahitya Akademy Award winner, is contesting on the UPPL’s ticket. The UPPL is in alliance with the ruling BJP.
In the 2016 meeting elections, the Congress had a lead of greater than seven proportion factors over the BJP in phrases of vote share on 40 seats and its common vote share has remained round 27 per cent since 2006. This time, as many as 29 sitting MLAs, 9 of them from the BJP and eight from the Congress, are contesting in the polls.
