Guwahati, May 4 (PTI) Continuing his losing streak in electoral democracy, Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) president Lurinjyoti Gogoi lost in newly created Khowang constituency by nearly 10,000 votes to BJP ‘s Chakradhar Gogoi, according to the Election Commission on Monday.
While the AJP candidate cornered 57,054 votes, the BJP MLA received 67,038 votes.
Chakradhar Gogoi is an MLA from the Moran seat, which was abolished after the delimitation exercise in 2023. Khowang was created in its place.
The AJP failed to open its account in the Assam Assembly as all its 10 candidates lost the election.
Lurinjyoti Gogoi contested the 2021 Assam Assembly polls from Duliajan and Naharkatia seats, but lost both to BJP candidates.
In 2024, he was AJP’s candidate from Dibrugarh Lok Sabha constituency, but again lost to Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal.
Lurinjyoti Gogoi is the president of AJP, a regional party formed after the 2019 anti-CAA agitation.
He rose through the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) and became its general secretary in 2015, serving until November 2020. In that role, he mobilised youths against the Citizenship Amendment Act, leading large rallies across the state.
In December 2020, he resigned from the AASU and was elected founding president of AJP, a regional party backed by AASU and Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuva Chhatra Parishad (AJYCP).
AJP aligned with Akhil Gogoi’s Raijor Dal for the 2021 Assembly elections and contested many seats across the state. However, it could not win a single constituency.
AJP’s agenda centres on indigenous land rights, anti-CAA stance, flood-erosion control, education and jobs. Gogoi criticises the BJP’s welfare schemes as masking inflation in essential items.
As AJP president, Gogoi remains a key regional voice, seeking to convert AASU’s movement legacy into electoral strength and position his party as the “true Assamese alternative” to national parties.
The only son of Prabin Gogoi and the late Dulu Gogoi, he studied in Laipuli and Tinsukia, graduating in Mathematics from Tinsukia College in 2004, later completing B.Ed and M.Ed degrees from Dibrugarh University. PTI TR TR RG
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