GUWAHATI: The BJP Assam Election Committee has Shortlisted Candidates for 10 Lok Sabha seats for the general election 2019.
The BJP plans to contest in 10 of the 14 Lok Sabha seats from Assam in the forthcoming General Elections.
Sources said that barring Tezpur constituency, for which only one name – that of State Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma – has been shortlisted.
For Silchar constituency, the names of Rajdeep Roy and Parimal Suklabaidya have been shortlisted, while Kripanath Mallah and Amaresh Roy are in the panel for Karimganj constituency.
For Diphu includes Haren Sing Bey, Bidya Sing Engleng, Tuliram Ronghang and Kache Teronpi.
For the Jorhat seat, the names of sitting MP Kamakhya Prasad Tasa, State Minister Topon Kumar Gogoi, Lakhya Konwar and Santanu Gogoi are in the panel, while for Dibrugarh the names of sitting MP Rameswar Teli and Pulak Gohain are in the list.
Sitting MP Pradan Baruah and Haren Deori are in the panel for Lakhimpur. For Guwahati, the party has shortlisted sitting MP Bijoya Chakravarty, Bijuli Kalita Medhi, Queen Ojha and Chikimiki Talukdar.
For Nagaon sitting MP and Union Minister Rajen Gohain, MLAs Rupak Sarmah and Angoorlata Deka, and Jitu Goswami.
For Mangaldai the names of sitting MP Ramen Deka, Dilip Saikia and Jayanta Malla Baruah has been shortlisted.
In Kaliabor, Dhubri and Barpeta constituencies BJP have left it for their alliance AGP and the Kokrajhar seat for BPF for which they already announced the candidature as Pramila Rani Brahma.
Interestingly, AGP wants to put up its own candidate from Mangaldai as well, a demand that the BJP is reluctant to concede.
Meanwhile, Himanta Biswa Sarma, BJP's Assam in-charge Mahendra Singh and State BJP president Ranjeet Kumar Dass visited the AGP’s head-office at Ambari on March 14.
The BJP leaders held a discussion with AGP president Atul Bora, working president Keshab Mahanta and other senior leaders of the regional party.