{"id":425134,"date":"2024-02-29T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/02\/29\/bjp-to-contest-11-lok-sabha-seats-in-assam-3-for-allies-himanta-sarma\/"},"modified":"2024-02-29T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T16:12:00","slug":"bjp-to-contest-11-lok-sabha-seats-in-assam-3-for-allies-himanta-sarma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/02\/29\/bjp-to-contest-11-lok-sabha-seats-in-assam-3-for-allies-himanta-sarma\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP To Contest 11 Lok Sabha Seats In Assam, 3 For Allies: Himanta Sarma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"BJP To Contest 11 Lok Sabha Seats In Assam, 3 For Allies: Himanta Sarma\" alt=\"BJP To Contest 11 Lok Sabha Seats In Assam, 3 For Allies: Himanta Sarma\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2024-01\/u743q1go_himanta-biswa-sarma_625x300_11_January_24.jpeg\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">The allies will support each other&#8217;s candidates in all the 14 constituencies, Himanta Sarma said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">Guwahati: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The BJP will contest 11 seats in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls in Assam, leaving three for its allies Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the United People&#8217;s Party Liberal (UPPL), Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The AGP will contest from Barpeta and Dhubri, while UPPL will field its candidate in Kokrajhar.<\/p>\n<p>The allies will support each other&#8217;s candidates in all the 14 constituencies, Sarma said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yesterday, BJP state chief Bhabesh Kalita and I had a meeting with our national president J P Nadda, Union Home minister Amit Shah and our national general secretary B L Santosh, during which the seat-sharing was discussed,&#8221; he told a press conference at the party headquarters here.<\/p>\n<p>He said UPPL had requested for the Kokrajhar seat, which the BJP agreed to.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The AGP, which has its base across the state, wanted more seats. But, I conveyed to them the request of our central leadership to contest from two seats this time, and they have obliged us,&#8221; the CM said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of the total 14 seats, we are optimistic of winning 11,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The BJP has nine MPs in the outgoing Lok Sabha from the state, while the AGP and UPPL have no representation.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress holds three seats and the AIUDF one, while another is with an independent candidate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/bjp-to-contest-11-lok-sabha-seats-in-assam-3-for-allies-himanta-biswa-sarma-5152011\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The allies will support each other&#8217;s candidates in all the 14 constituencies, Himanta Sarma said. Guwahati: The BJP will contest 11 seats in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls in Assam, leaving three for its allies Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the United People&#8217;s Party Liberal (UPPL), Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Thursday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":425135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[192930,647,43634,4836],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}