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  Assam Rajya Sabha elections 2025: NDA candidates Kanad Purkayastha, Birendra Prasad win unopposed

  Assam | June 13, 2025 16:07 IST

  NDA candidates Kanad Purkayastha and Birendra Prasad Baishya were elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Assam, strengthening the alliance’s position.

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  Assam Bypoll Results: Himanta Biswa Sarma-led NDA sweeps state, secures 5-0 victory

  Assam | November 23, 2024 19:11 IST

  The vote counting for the Assam bypolls to five Assembly seats—Dholai, Sidli, Bongaigaon, Behali, and Samuguri—is set for November 23, following a competitive campaign involving candidates from BJP, Congress, AGP, UPPL, and AAP.

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  Assam bypolls 2024: AGP picks Diptimoyee Choudhury, wife of 8-time MLA; UPPL announces candiadates

  Assam | October 21, 2024 18:31 IST

  The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL) have announced their candidates for Assam's upcoming by-elections, with AGP fielding Diptimoyee Choudhury for Bongaigaon and UPPL nominating Nirmal Kumar Brahma for Sidli, as parties prepare for polls on November 13.

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  Assam, other NE States Lok Sabha results 2024: BJP's dominance continues, sweeps Tripura, Arunachal

  India | June 04, 2024 15:03 IST

  Assam, other NE States Lok Sabha results 2024: The trend showed, the BJP did not lose grip over Northeast states. The Bharatiya Janata Party, under Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa and PM Modi's leadership, maintained its performance in the region.

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  Assam, other NE States Lok Sabha results 2024 Live: BJP clean sweeps in Tripura, Arunachal

  India | June 04, 2024 23:56 IST

  Assam, other Northeast State Lok Sabha results 2024 Live: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the last two Lok Sabha elections in 2014 and 2019 outperformed main rival Con election, while BJP eyeing to sweep all 25 seats in the region, the Congress is hopeful for regaining the lost electoral ground.

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  Assam polls 2021: AGP releases third list of 13 candidates

  Elections | March 14, 2021 23:28 IST

  The AGP, an alliance partner of the ruling BJP-led combine in Assam, on Sunday released its third list of candidates containing 13 names, includingminister Phani Bhushan Choudhury and Bhojpuri singer Kalpana Patowary, for the assembly polls in the state.

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  AGP releases first list of 8 candidates, denies ticket to party veteran Brindaban Goswami

  Elections | March 07, 2021 21:42 IST

  The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), an alliance partner of the ruling BJP-led combine in Assam, on Sunday declared its first list of eight candidates for the approaching assembly polls in the state.

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  AGP committed 'historic blunder' by not supporting Citizenship Bill: Himanta Biswa Sarma

  India | January 08, 2019 18:12 IST

  Former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta had committed the first blunder by signing the Assam Accord and the party made the second ''historic blunder'' by not extending support to the Bill, Sarma said.

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  'There is no question of remaining in alliance': AGP withdraws support to BJP in Assam over Citizenship Bill

  India | January 07, 2019 23:45 IST

  The proposed legislation seeks to provide Indian citizenship to non-Muslims from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, and the AGP and several parties and organisations have claimed that it will have an adverse impact on the demography of the sensitive border state.

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  Congress responsible for illegal immigration from Bangladesh: Badruddin Ajmal

  Politics | May 20, 2016 18:42 IST

  All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) supremo Badruddin Ajmal has held Congress responsible for illegal immigration of Bangladeshis into Assam.

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  Assam Elections 2016: BJP-AGP alliance a marriage of convenience, says CM Gogoi

  Politics | March 12, 2016 23:03 IST

  Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday claimed that the BJP-Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) alliance was a "marriage of convenience" just to grab power in the state.

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  Split in AGP, BJP ahead of Assam assembly elections

  Politics | March 09, 2016 21:44 IST

  In a development that might benefit the ruling Congress ahead of the April assembly elections, the BJP and AGP have split over the recent alliance between the two and both the newly-floated parties announced today that they will contest the polls.

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  BJP may have the last laugh in Assam Assembly polls

  Politics | March 08, 2016 12:19 IST

  Ahead of the elections to the Assam assembly, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has strengthened its position by striking an alliance with the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP).Although the Assam Pradesh Congress tried its best to

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  BJP, AGP join hands to contest Assam Assembly elections together

  Politics | March 02, 2016 19:50 IST

  New Delhi: Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) will team up with Asom Gana Parishad (AJP) for the upcoming assembly elections in Assam. Both the parties have decided to contest the polls in alliance with each other.“BJP

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  CM dares AGP, BJP, KMSS to prove his involvement in scam

  India | August 30, 2014 21:54 IST

  Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today dared the Opposition AGP and BJP as well as KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi to furnish proofs about his alleged involvement in the chit-fund scam in the state.In a

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  Six-time Congress MP Handique locked in keen tussle in Jorhat

  Politics | March 28, 2014 12:14 IST

  Jorhat (Assam): Among the most prestigious Lok Sabha seats in Assam, Jorhat will see six-time sitting Congress MP Bijoy Krishna Handique battle it out against BJP's Kamakhya Prasad Tasa, a tea tribe leader, and AGP's

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  AGP, BJP opposing land agreement with Bangladesh with eye on polls

  Politics | December 07, 2013 16:15 IST

  Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said both the AGP and BJP were opposing the land ratification agreement with Bangladesh with an eye on the coming Lok Sabha elections.“The AGP and the BJP are

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  AGP serves legal notice on Rahul Gandhi for his remarks

  India | June 05, 2013 23:30 IST

  Guwahati, Jun 5 : Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi was today slapped with a legal notice by Asom Gana Parishad's youth wing, giving him 15 days to apologise for his purported remarks that the party

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  BJP, AGP playing politics over Assam violence: Tarun Gogoi

  Politics | September 23, 2012 11:43 IST

  Guwahati, Aug 11: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today charged the BJP and AGP with “playing politics” over the recent violence in Assam and said his government had done its best to prevent illegal immigration

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  Congress indulging in politics over 'secret killings', alleges Mahanta

  Politics | June 10, 2012 13:54 IST

  Guwahati, June 10: Asom Gana Parishad president and former Assam chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta today charged the ruling Congress government of playing politics regarding the issue of the alleged ‘secret killings' which shook the