The BJP on Thursday March 21,2019 dropped three sitting MPs from its first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections announced on Thursday evening
BJP named candidates for 8 of the 14 seats in Assam while refraining from making announcements for the crucial Nagaon and Tezpur constituencies
In Guhawati,which is considered one of the state’s toughest battlegrounds with its diverse voter base, the saffron party has fielded former mayor Queen Ojha. She has replaced former union minister Bijoya Chakraborty, who has represented the seat thrice since 1999.
The BJP has nominated general secretary of its Assam unit, Dilip Saikia, in place of Mangaldoi MP Ramen Deka, while Assam Minister Tapan Gogoi has been preferred in place of sitting MP Kamakhya Prasad Tasa from Jorhat.
Two sitting MPs – Dibrugarh MP Rameshwar Teli and Lakhimpur MP Pradan Baruah - have been re-nominated from their respective constituencies with the BJP looking at an improved showing in the northeast.
Former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi earlier said that his party aims to win at least 10 seats, including Guwahati
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