Assam Assembly Election 2021 Sibsagar: After three phases of polling amid the second wave of the novel coronavirus pandemic, activist Akhil Gogoi has won from the Sibsagar assembly constituency . Gogoi was in the lead since the counting of votes began.
He was contesting against Surabhi Rajkonwar of Bharatiya Janta Party, who was the trailing candidate. Other candidates in the fray were Ajit Hazarika from NCP, Subhramitra Gogoi of Congress and two other independents- Hemanta Boruah and Rupa Borah.
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Sibsagar Assembly constituency in Sivasagar district of Assam that went to polls on March 27. Sibsagar seat is part of the Jorhat Lok Sabha constituency, which falls in the Upper Assam region of Assam.
In the 2016 Assembly elections, Pranab Kumar Gogoi of INC won from this seat beating Surabhi Rajkonwar of BJP by a margin of 542 votes.
This time, activist Akhil Gogoi, who has been in jail for more than a year over allegations that he instigated violence during the anti-CAA protests in 2019-20, is contesting his maiden election as part of his newly floated Raijor Dal, or “people’s party”.
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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