Congress continues balancing act with allies in second listing for Assam polls | India Information
2 min learnGuwahatiMar 15, 2026 07:19 AM IST
The Congress late Saturday evening launched a second listing of 23 candidates for the upcoming Assam meeting elections, and launched an inventory of 15 seats that it has left for its alliance companions.
Not one of the 15 seats left for alliance companions are at the moment held by the Congress. These embrace Higher Assam seats like Sadiya, Dibrugarh, Khowang – which alliance companion Asom Jatiya Parishad’s chief Lurinjyoti Gogoi has reportedly been eyeing – and Sarupathar, and hill district seats like Diphu and Amri – which one other alliance companion, the All Celebration Hill Leaders’ Convention, is prone to search. One other seat, Bhowanipur-Sorbhog, is at the moment held by an MLA from one other alliance companion, CPI (M).
Final week, the Congress and these three different events had introduced that they are going to collectively marketing campaign for the meeting election. Days later, alliance talks collapsed with one other potential alliance companion, the Raijor Dal, which has introduced candidates for 13 seats up to now.
With the discharge of its second listing, the Congress has now introduced candidates for a complete of 65 seats. There are a complete of 126 seats within the Assam legislative meeting.
The occasion’s second contains sitting MLAs Wazed Ali Chaudhury, Abul Kalam Rasheed Mandal and Rekibuddin Ahmed, and the occasion has fielded its former Barpeta MP Abdul Khaleque from the Mandia seat.
The BJP is but to declare any of its candidates.
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