NDA set to form govt in Assam for third straight term

• The ruling NDA is set to form the government in Assam for the third consecutive term after securing a two-thirds majority.

• Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma led the BJP to another straight victory, bagging 82 of the 126 seats.

• The BJP secured a majority on its own for the first time in the state. It had won 60 seats in the previous two polls in 2021 and 2016.

• The BJP, which contested 90 seats, won 82, while its allies — the Bodoland People’s Front (BPF), which contested 11 seats, and the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), which fought in 26 seats — bagged 10 constituencies each.

• The Congress, which contested 99 seats, won 19 constituencies, while the Badruddin Ajmal-led AIUDF and Akhil Gogoi-led Raijor Dal secured two seats each, and the Trinamool Congress bagged one constituency.

• CM Sarma won the Jalukbari constituency for the sixth consecutive term, defeating Congress candidate Bidisha Neog by 89,434 votes.

• Congress state president Gaurav Gogoi lost in Jorhat to veteran politician and sitting BJP MLA Hitendranath Goswami by 23,181 votes.

• Polling in all 126 assembly constituencies in the state was held in a single phase on April 9 with 722 candidates in fray.