Lok Sabha Polls Phase 3: Voting begins for 4 seats in Assam, over 81 lakh voters to seal fate of 47 candidates

Voting is underway at 9516 polling stations in Guwahati, Dhubri, Kokrajhar and Barpeta Lok Sabha seats

Voting for the third phase of the 18th Lok Sabha election 2024 has begun.

Along with the 93 Lok Sabha seats across 10 states and 2 Union Territories, voting has also begun in the remaining 4 of the total 25 Parliamentary constituencies in the Northeastern region of India at 7:00 am.

Voting is underway at 9516 polling stations in Guwahati, Dhubri, Kokrajhar and Barpeta Lok Sabha seats. With this Lok Sabha election will come to an end in Assam.

Voting for the 15 Parliamentary constituencies was held in the first phase on April 19 and voting for 7 seats was held in the second phase on April 26.

A total of 81,77,207 eligible voters, out of which 41,27,099 are male voters, 40,84,130 are female voters and 112 third gender voters will decide the fate of 47 candidates in the fray.

The highest number of candidates are in Barpeta where 14 contestants are in the fray, while Guwahati has the lowest number of candidates at 8.

12 candidates are contesting in Kokrajhar, 14 in Barpeta and 13 in Dhubri.

Both, NDA (BJP, AGP and UPPL) and the Congress have fielded candidates in all four seats.

In the Guwahati seat, the BJP and Congress have fielded women candidates and also newcomers. Bijuli Kalita Medhi is contesting on a BJP ticket from Guwahati, the Congress has fielded Mira Barthakur Goswami.

BJP’s ally Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) is contesting from the Barpeta (candidate- Phani Bhushan Choudhury) and Dhubri (candidate- Javed Islam) seats.

UPPL’s Joyanta Basumatary is contesting from Kokrajhar seat against former BTC Deputy Chief of Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) and Bodoland Peoples Front (BPF) leader Kampa Borgoyary and 10 others.

In the Dhubri seat, All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) Chief and incumbent Dhubri Lok Sabha MP Badruddin Ajmal is up against former Assam cabinet minister and 5-time MLA Rakibul Hussain of the Congress and 10 others.

In the Barpeta seat, it is expected to be a triangular fight between NDA consensus candidate Phani Bhushan Choudhury of the AGP, Deep Bayan of the Congress and Manoranjan Talukdar of the CPI-M (Marxist).

A total of 126 nominations were received in the 4 parliamentary seats, out of which only 52 were found to be valid. However, 5 candidates withdrew their nominations reducing the total number of contesting candidates to 47.

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