Assam Assembly Election 2021 Jalukbari Constituency : Bhartiya Janta Party's (BJP) Himanta Biswa Sarma, touted as the man behind the saffron party's rise in the northeastern state, has won once again from the Jalukbari constituency. Sarma tweeted saying the party has won 'by a margin of 1,01,911 votes'.
Sarma was the leading candidate in the fray since the counting of votes began. Fighting against him were Romen Chandra Borthakur of Congress and Hemanta Kumar Sut of Rajor Dal (RD).
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Jalukbari Assembly constituency in Kamrup Metro district of Assam went to polls on April 6. Jalukbari seat is part of the Gauhati Lok Sabha constituency, which falls in the Lower Assam region.
In the 2016 Assembly elections, Himanta Biswa Sarma of BJP won from this seat beating Niren Deka of the Congress by a margin of 85,935 votes.
BJP's Sarma has been representing the Jalukbari seat continuously since 2001 and this time too the party gave him a ticket from the seat. Even though Sarma had made his intentions of not contesting the 2021 state election, the party announced his candidature along with the names of candidates for the first phase that goes to the polls on March 27.
An ex-Congressman and now BJP's face in the northeast, winning from this constituency is essential for Sarma.
Counting of votes for the assembly polls is also underway across Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and the Union Territory of Puducherry.
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