By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,
Guwahati: Assam was also no different as BJP swept the Lok Sabha polls in the state as several big names of Congress face defeat. The saffron party has won in seven, All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) in three and the Congress in three seats while one seat was won by an independent candidate.
Union minister for tribal affairs for tribal affairs Ranee Narah of Congress lost to BJP’s state president Sarbananda Sonowal in Lakhimpur constituency by a margin of more than three lakh while DoNER minister and senior Congressman Paban Singh Ghatowar also lost to Rameswar Teli of the saffron party by over 1.8 lakh votes in Dibrugarh constituency.
Accepting humiliating defeat to the BJP, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi offered to resign from his position.
“We accept the people’s mandate. I take full responsibility for the defeat. I will submit my resignation to Sonia Gandhi. This is temporary setback to us. We will bounce back. In the 2016 assembly elections in the state, we will win again,” Gogoi said on Friday.
For BJP which had four seats in 2009 general elections increased their tally to seven with the win in Dibrugarh, Tezpur, Mangaldoi (retained), Nowgong (retained), Jorhat, Gauhati (retained) and Lakhimpur.
Badruddin Ajmal led AIUDF which had a lone seat in Dhubri, this time bettered its performance and increased its tally to three with the addition of Karimganj and Barpeta.
Ajmal retained his seat in Dhubri with more than 2.2 lakh votes than his nearest rival Wazed Ali Choudhury of Congress. In Barpeta, Ajmal’s brother Sirajuddin Ajmal won by a margin of 46 thousand against BJP’s Chandra Mohan Patowary. Radheshyam Biswas won for AIUDF from Karimganj.
Reformed militant Naba Kumar Sarania alias Heera Srania won the Kokrajhar seat as an independent candidate who defeated his nearest rival UG Brahma, another independent candidate, by more than 3.5 lakh votes.