Assam Elections 2021

Assam polls: JP Nadda, Rahul Gandhi to address rallies on last day of campaigning for second phase

Union minister Smriti Irani, Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal and state minister Himanta Biswa Sarma will also participate in election events and address rallies

Assam Assembly election 2021, Ripun Bora profile: Congress' state chief hopes to retain Gohpur stronhold

In 2016, Bora was both elected to the Rajya Sabha after which he was appointed the Assam Congress chief in place of Anjan Datta, who died after a brief illness, by Sonia Gandhi

Assam elections 2021: Amit Shah returns for four rallies; Sarbanada Sonowal, Himanta Biswa Sarma on campaign trail too

Assam sees a direct fight between the BJP and Congress

Assam polls: Himanta Biswa Sarma to participate in seven election events, CM to address three meetings

The rallies come a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi upped the ante against the Congress for the polls slated to begin on 27 March

'NIA tortured me, offered bail if I joined RSS, BJP': Akhil Gogoi in letter

The letter released by Gogoi's newly floated political outfit Raijor Dal said that the activist leader was taken to Delhi on 18 December, 2019, without the court's permission

Assam Assembly election 2021: Rajnath, JP Nadda, Yogi Adityanath to lead BJP campaign days ahead of polls

Of the 47 seats that go to polls in the first of the three phases in Assam on 27 March, 42 are from 11 districts of Upper Assam and northern Assam

Assam Assembly Election 2021, Ajanta Neog profile: Upper Assam leader looks poised to deliver for BJP

Neog, a senior minister in all three governments of late chief minister Tarun Gogoi, and a powerful leader in Upper Assam, has held the Golaghat seat since 2001

Assam Assembly Elections 2021, Sushmita Dev profile: Congress leader faces uncertain future in party, politics

A lawyer by profession, Dev has a BA (Hons) in Political Science, Bachelor of Laws (LLB), Masters in Law(LLM) and Bar-At-Law (UK)

Assam Assembly Election 2021, Lurinjyoti Gogoi profile: AJP chief started political career with AASU, has strong regional roots

Lurinjyoti was born in Morankari Gaon, Laipuli Gram Panchayat, Tinsukia district to Prabin Gogoi and Dulu Gogoi

Assam Assembly Election 2021: Perfume baron-turned-politician Badruddin Ajmal may play kingmaker

Ajmal has a Fazil-e Deoband (equivalent to a Master's Degree in Islamic Theology and Arabic), is the founding president of the NGO Markazul Ma'arif, and the managing trustee of HAMM Public Trust, Hojai