The Congress party on Tuesday released the first list of candidates for the Assam Assembly Elections, scheduled for later this year.
Gaurav Gogoi, who is the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and a Member of Parliament for Jorhat Lok Sabha Constituency, will contest the assembly polls from Jorhat.
Legislative Assembly elections are expected to be held in Assam in March–April 2026 to elect 126 members of the house. In 2021, the election saw the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) retain power with 75 seats, marking the first time a non-Congress alliance won consecutive terms in the state. The Mahajot led by the Congress won 50 seats, increasing its tally from 26 in 2016.
Himanta Biswa Sarma, a former Congress leader, became the chief minister of Assam.
In January, the Congress had Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as chairperson of the party’s screening committee for Assam.
This was the first organizational task assigned to Priyanka Gandhi Vadra after her role as All India Congress Committee general secretary in charge of Uttar Pradesh. The Congress party lost the 2022 UP elections, winning just two seats. Since then, she has been a general secretary without a specific assignment, even as she became a Lok Sabha member from Wayanad in 2024.
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