Assam Assembly Election 2021 Sarukhetri Constituency: Congress MLA Jakir Hussain Sikdar was taking on popular folk singer Kalpana Patowary, who was contesting on AGP ticket, and Manik Chandra Bora of AJP.
Sikdar retained the Sarukhetri assembly constituency for the second term.
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In the 2016 Assam assembly elections, Sikdar won the seat defeating AGP's candidate by a margin of 24,247 votes, which was 15.59 percent of the total votes polled. Sikdar polled a total of 1,55,492 (45.06 percent) votes.
The voter turnout in the 2016 Assembly elections was 88.68 percent and in 2011, 80.84 percent of Sarukhetri's voters came out to elect their Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA).
Sarukhetri assembly constituency falls in the Barpeta district of Assam and is reserved for General.
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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