GUWAHATI: The Congress will contest from 12 of the 14 Lok Sabha seats in Assam with Gaurav Gogoi set to return to Ahom bastion Jorhat in the upcoming elections, according to the list of candidates released by the party on Tuesday.
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The party has left Dibrugarh to the Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) where party Chief Lurinjyoti Gogoi is expected to contest, while it has not named any candidate for Lakhimpur yet.
Sitting MP from Kaliabor constituency Gaurav Gogoi will now face off against BJP candidate Topon Kumar Gogoi.
Earlier, there was talk that Gaurav could contest from Nagaon.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Congress fielded Sushanta Buragohain from Jorhat, who lost to Topon Kumar Gogoi.
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In the prestigious Guwahati constituency, Mahila Congress leader Meera Barthaakur Goswami will contest against BJP’s Bijuli Kalita Medhi and AAP candidate Dr Bhaven Choudhury.
Sitting MP from Nagaon Pradyut Bordoloi will contest again from the seat, while former MLA from Sarupathar, Roselina Tirki will battle it out for the new – post delimitation - Kaziranga seat.
Congress has fielded Rakibul Hussain from Dhubri against AIUDF chief Maulana Badaruddin Ajmal and AGP candidate Javed Islam.
Former BJP MLA Joyram Engleng will contest from the Diphu seat against BJP’s Amarsing Tisso, who is also the executive member (EM) of the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC).
In Kokrajhar, the party has put up Gorjon Mashhary, where BJP’s ally UPPL is yet to announce its candidate.
The Congress will pitch former MP Madhav Rajbongshi in the Darrang-Udalguri constituency against sitting BJP MP Dilip Kumar Saikia and BPF candidate Durga Das Boro.
The party will field Premlal Gunju in Sonitpur.
The party has named Surjya Kumar Sarkar for Silchar, setting up a fight with BJP leader and state transport minister Parimal Suklabaidya.
The Congress has declared advocate Hafiz Rashid Choudhury as its Karimganj candidate against BJP’s Kripanath Mallah.
Deep Bayan will contest from Barpeta, where AGP leader and former minister and Asom Gana Parishad leader Phani Bhushan Choudhury will fight as BJP alliance candidate.
Although AAP is an ally of the 16-party United Opposition Forum in Assam, the party has snubbed Congress in seat sharing. The AAP has already announced the names of its candidates for three seats --Gauhati, Dibrugarh and Sonitpur.
Sources said Congress has urged the AAP to curtail the number of seats from Assam but the latter expressed its inability to do so as it has already launched a campaign.
Sources also said the AAP was requested to drop its candidates from Sonitpur and Dibrugarh and field only one candidate from Guwahati seat, which was refused by AAP leaders.
As the AAP has refused to drop candidates from two seats, there may be a friendly contest between the two parties in the election, sources added.
