The NDA returned to power in Assam with a dominant mandate as Himanta Biswa Sarma began his second term in a ceremony attended by PM Modi and top BJP leaders.
The 2026 Assembly elections were held in Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Kerala.
Overall, Hitendra Nath Goswami polled 69,439 votes in the 2026 Assembly elections in Assam, restricting Gaurav Gogoi to 46,257 votes.
BJP's Shehzad Poonawalla demanded to know who supplied Khera the documents and questioned why Rahul Gandhi backed allegations the Gauhati HC has now found prima facie false.
The BJP has brought in recent Congress defectors and retained key leaders in its first Assam poll list, setting up contests in constituencies like Dispur, Bihpuria and Jorhat.
Assam Assembly Elections 2026 Full Schedule: The 126 Assembly constituencies of Assam will go to poll on April 9, and the counting of votes will take place on May 4.
On Friday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah also weighed in, claiming that Assam’s demography changed drastically under Congress rule, with the population of “infiltrators” rising to 64 lakh from zero.
Priyanka, incidentally, is the Congress MP from Wayanad in poll-bound Kerala. Signalling a high-stakes push in the key northeastern state, she was recently appointed Chairperson of the Screening Committee for Assam—a state also due for polls along with Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry in 2026.
The root of the ECI’s indecision lies in Assam’s unique and highly sensitive citizenship verification context.
