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Wednesday, May 20, 2026
TopicAssam Assembly polls

Topic: Assam Assembly polls

As NDA inches towards Assam win, ally AGP leads in 8 of 26 seats, Atul Bora ahead in Bokakhat

NDA ally AGP had contested 29 seats and won 9 in 2021 assembly polls. This year, it contested 26 and fielded 13 candidates from Muslim community.

Himanta retains Jalukbari seat by a whopping margin of 89,000 votes as BJP set for Assam sweep

CM Himanta has been representing Jalukbari since 2001. He contested from seat as a Congress leader until 2014, and has been with BJP since 2015.

Himanta Sarma-powered NDA secures a landslide in Assam. What lies ahead

3rd straight victory for BJP would firmly establish CM Sarma as frontline national leader & key poll strategist. He’s now expected to double down on issues that propelled him to power.

‘Reputational damage before polls’: What’s in Assam CM Himanta’s wife’s FIR against Pawan Khera

Assam Police registers FIR against Khera for alleging that Riniki Bhuyan Sharma holds 3 passports and a UAE gold card. Sharma says documents shown at Congress press conferences were fake.

What’s the 1950 law Nehru put on hold that BJP vows to ‘unleash on Bangladeshi Miyas’ in Assam

BJP manifesto promises protection of land, heritage & dignity of indigenous people by using 1950 law to 'expedite process of detection and pushback of illegal immigrants'.

In Assam ‘Sankalp Patra’, BJP promises UCC, war on ‘love and land jihad’ if voted to power again

Party manifesto vows to protect ‘civilisation, culture & rights’ of the people, to free encroached land from ‘Bangladeshi Miyas’—a pejorative term for Bengali-speaking Muslims.

In poll-bound Assam, ‘Justice for Zubeen’ remains a deeply emotive issue—with fading political weight

People have not stopped grieving the singer’s death. While parties promise justice for him, the matter has not quite translated into an electoral fault line that could shape poll outcomes.

Man who brought in Himanta, now cast aside: Ex-Assam BJP chief among 19 MLAs dropped, veterans push back

Party old guard feeling sidelined after 19 MLAs dropped from candidate list announced on 19 March for 9 April polls. These include senior leaders Atul Bora, Siddhartha Bhattacharya.

Why Assam’s Congress-led Opposition has no space for Badruddin Ajmal

Ajmal's AIUDF was formed in 2005 in the backdrop of the Supreme Court scrapping the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act, enacted in 1983 when Indira Gandhi was PM.

Single seat in Bengal, dip in Kerala tally — why ‘Muslim parties’ didn’t do well this time

While ISF and AIMIM failed in Bengal, AIUDF-Congress alliance couldn't stop the BJP from retaining power in Assam. In Kerala, the IUML's performance has taken a beating.

On Camera

Norway’s Modi cartoon was not satire. Just colonial laziness

Political satire is indispensable to democracy, racial caricature isn’t. If Europe’s liberal press still cannot tell difference, then decolonisation never happened in their imagination.

Recovery of unclaimed shares, dividends now takes days, not yrs. EAC-PM credits investor watchdog revamp

PM-EAC paper says overhaul of Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority system sharply improved processing speed and reduced paperwork for investors.

Dragon’s armour: How Xi reshaped China’s military with theatre commands a decade before India’s push

While India yet to set in motion theaterisation of armed forces, China's military reforms combined China’s Army, Navy, Air Force and Rocket Force aimed at regional dominance & tight political control.

Pakistan is tactically brilliant, strategically disastrous. It’s primed for repeated blunders

Pakistan has ended up losing every war against India but that hasn’t prevented it from claiming victory. We will go over the evidence to anticipate what to expect next.