Pramod Boro's party, UPPL, largely limited to the Bodoland Territorial Council area, is contesting in just one (Kokrajhar) out of 14 Lok Sabha seats in Assam. The party has influence in two other Lok Sabha seats, Darrang-Udalguri and Sonitpur, which have sizable Bodo voters.
Ranjit Dutta, the BJP candidate for the Sonitpur parliamentary constituency, filed his nomination papers on Wednesday with the returning officer at Tezpur in Assam's Sonitpur district.
In a joint operation, Assam police and Nagaland police arrested the most wanted narcotics drug trafficking kingpin of North East India from Assam's Sonitpur district. The arrested drug trafficking kingpin was identified as Md. Bahar Uddin and he hails from Jeliagrong, Dimapur in Nagaland.
The Aam Aadmi Party withdrew its candidate from Assam's Guwahati Lok Sabha seat and demanded that Congress withdraw their candidates from Sonitpur and Dibrugarh.
As part of Vikas Yatra in Sonitpur district, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday dedicated and initiated Rs 1,370 crore worth of developmental projects, including a model residential school, water supply schemes, tourism initiatives, road constructions, and health sector advan
"AAP will contest in three seats in Assam. We have opened party offices in 176 village panchayats in Sonitpur. We are fully prepared to fight in these three seats. We have already announced our candidates for Dibrugarh, Sonitpur and Guwahati seats. We want that, all opposition parties should
Adding momentum to growth and development, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday inaugurated and launched projects worth a total of Rs 34 crore across the northern Assam district of Sonitpur.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday attended the 13th triennial conference of the All Bathou Mahasabha at Thelamara near Dhekiajuli in Sonitpur district in the presence of nearly 1 lakh people of Bodoland.
Union Minister Amit Shah on Saturday assured countrymen that the Centre, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will strive to protect religions that worship nature at any cost.
Assam Legislative Assembly Speaker Biswajit Daimary and Assam Minister Ashok Singhal on Friday visited Thelamara near Dhekiajuli in Assam's Sonitpur district where Union Home Minister Amit Shah will attend the programme as the Chief Guest.