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Assam has 14 Lok Sabha seats, BJP has declared candidates for 11 seats, AGP will contest from two seats and United People’s Party, Liberal (UPPL) will contest from one seat.
Party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Birendra Prasad Baishya said, "Following a meeting of the party leadership, we have decided on the candidature. We are confident of winning in both the seats."
Choudhary is the MLA from Bongaigaon and longest serving MLA in the state. Choudhury said, "I have accepted the party’s decision and will contest the elections. But I will also continue serving my people in Bongaigaon."
In 2019 Congress won from the Barpeta seat. Islam is a former MLA from Mankachar. He is pitted against All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) chief Badruddin Ajmal. Ajmal has repeatedly won the seat.
AGP is confident that this time it will have representation in Lok Sabha in 2019 the party drew a blank. This Lok Sabha election is the first election after the assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies of Assam was delimited following the last year’s delimitation exercise.
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma recently said,“BJP is confident of winning 11 seats out of 14 in Assam as of now. In the other three seats there will be competition.”
In 2019 BJP contested 10 parliamentary seats while AGP (AGP) contested three seats and its then ally Bodoland People’s Front contested one seat.
In 2019 parliamentary polls BJP in Assam increased its tally from seven of 2014 to nine in 2019, across Northeast India BJP which won eight seats in the last parliamentary election increased the seat tally to 14 in 2019. Together with allies, BJP won 18 seats out of 25 seats, the best ever performance of the Saffron party in the region.
While All India United Democratic Front won one seat, one seat was won by Independents in Assam. AGP drew blank. Congress party wrested three seats.
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