Latest


BJP retains Assam's Dhemaji assembly seat, with reduced margin

  •   Thu, Apr 13 2017 03:29:54 PM

Guwahati, April 13 (IANS): Assam's ruling BJP retained the Dhemaji assembly seat in a bypoll as party candidate Ranoj Pegu trounced his nearest Congress rival Babul Sonowal by over 9,000 votes.

Pegu garnered 75,217 votes, while Sonowal got 65,932 votes.

The April 9 bypoll was necessitated after sitting BJP MLA Pradan Baruah was elected to the Lok Sabha from Lakhimpur in a bypoll. The counting was taken up on Thursday.

In the 2016 assembly elections, Baruah had defeated his closest Congress rival by over 19,000 votes.
  

Top Stories

St Cecily’s School’s 66 years of excellence - Admissions open for 2025-'26

  •   23 hours ago    1

Leave a Comment

Title: BJP retains Assam's Dhemaji assembly seat, with reduced margin



You have 2000 characters left.

Disclaimer:

Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. Daijiworld.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article.

Please note that sending false messages to insult, defame, intimidate, mislead or deceive people or to intentionally cause public disorder is punishable under law. It is obligatory on Daijiworld to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.

Hence, sending offensive comments using daijiworld will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will Daijiworld.com be held responsible.

You might also like