5 sitting Assam MLAs elected MPs, bypolls to be held in these Assembly seats. Details here

At least five Assembly seats have fallen vacant in Assam as the MLAs representing these seats got elected as MPs in the recently held Lok Sabha polls.

The five seats which fell vacant are Sidli, Behali, Bongaigaon, Dholai and Samaguri.

The Sidli seat fell vacant as Joyanta Basumatary of the United Peoples Party Liberal (UPPL) who was representing the seat, got elected from the Kokrajhar Lok Sabha seat.

Behali seat fell vacant after 4-time Behali MLA (2001, 2006, 2016 and 2021), Ranjit Dutta won the Sonitpur Lok Sabha seat by a margin of 3,61,408 votes defeating his nearest rival, Prem Lal Ganju of Congress. Dutta got 7,75,788 votes while Ganju got 4,14,380 votes.

Bypoll for the Bongaigaon seat has been necessitated as 8-time MLA from the seat, Phani Bhushan Choudhury of the AGP, an ally of BJP in Assam, won the Barpeta Lok Sabha seat with 8,60,113 votes defeating his nearest rival Deep Bayan of the Congress who polled 6,37,762 votes.

Congress leader Rakibul Hussain, a 5-time MLA from the Samaguri Assembly seat won the Dhubri Lok Sabha seat with 14,71,885 votes defeating sitting MP Badruddin Ajmal of AIUDF who got 4,59,409 votes. Therefore, election for the Samaguri Assembly seat will have to be held.

Bypolls for the Dholai Assembly seat will have to held as Assam Transport, Excise and Fisheries Minister in the Himanta Biswa Sarma Government and 5-time MLA of Dholia, Parimal Suklabaidya won from the Silchar Lok Sabha seat trouncing Surya Kanta Sarkar of Congress by 2,64,311 votes.

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the by polls will happen with old Assembly boundaries and the delimitation will come into force just before the 2026 Assembly election in the state.

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