The Lok Sabha Election 2019 is an important test not just for the Congress, which has slowly lost its dominance in the North East, but also for the BJP and its carefully constructed North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA).
In Assam, polling took place in five (Lakhimpur, Kaliabor, Dibrugarh, Tezpur and Jorhat) of the total of 14 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state. Till 5 pm, the voter turnout in the state was 67.4 percent.
Lakhimpur had the highest number of candidates, with 11 people contesting from the constituency. BJP MP Pradan Baruah is the sitting MP in Lakhimpur and he will battle it out with Congress’s Anil Borgohain. Total electors in this constituency are 14,30,994.
Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal had won this seat in the 2014 elections with a margin of 2.90 lakh votes. After casting his vote at Sahitya Sabha Bhavan in Dibrugarh, the chief minister said that he is sure that BJP will form the government under the leadership of Narendra Modi as prime minister.