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Guwahati: Assam Congress President Bhupen Kumar Borah announced on Tuesday that the party will contest all five Assembly seats up for bypolls. The seats are Samaguri, Behali, Dholai, Sidli, and Bongaigaon.
This decision was made during a meeting chaired by AICC General Secretary Jitendra Singh with district-level party leaders on Monday, marking the first day of Singh’s three-day visit to the state. Borah shared the update on social media, stating, “@INCAssam would contest all the 5 seats where byelections would be held. We would constitute 5 teams of senior leaders who would reach out to the grassroots.”
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The Assembly seats became vacant after the incumbents were elected to the Lok Sabha. Previously, the Samaguri seat was held by the Congress, while the others were held by the BJP and its allies, AGP and BPF.
In the last Lok Sabha and 2021 Assembly elections, the Congress contested as part of an opposition alliance, although some members of the coalition ended up fielding candidates against each other in several seats.
Borah also mentioned that the meeting decided to activate the party’s Disciplinary Action Committee (DAC) to resolve all pending disciplinary cases as soon as possible.
