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The BJP’s regional partners have lost all the seats that they contested in the Northeast except in Assam, meaning that apart from Arunachal Pradesh, the NDA has lost its hold in all other tribal-majority hill states in the region.
In the midst of the ongoing Parliament session, a group of NDA MLAs from Manipur arrived in Delhi on Friday to press the central leadership for a resolution to the ongoing ethnic strife in the state, The Indian Express has learnt.
Reeling from its worst-ever performance in Lok Sabha elections since its formation, which leaves it without any representation in Parliament, the All India United Democratic Front faces a choice – course-correct before the 2026 Assam assembly elections or perish.
After flaunting the turnouts at his rallies in Assam’s Bengali Muslim-majority constituencies during the Lok Sabha election campaign, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is now labelling the emphatic Congress wins in those seats as “dangerous” to the state’s social fabric.
Elected to the Lok Sabha for the third time, former Assam CM and Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal is likely to bag a Cabinet berth again on Sunday.
Bimol Akoijam, an associate professor of Jawaharlal Nehru University’s School of Social Sciences, won the Inner Manipur seat on a Congress ticket by a margin of over a lakh in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls.
Jorhat may be just one of 14 Lok Sabha seats in Assam, but Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi’s commanding victory there — in a contest where the BJP ran its most aggressive campaign and where Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma led from the front — will sting the state leadership the most.
The two seats of Manipur do not have any major influence in shaping national outcomes in the Lok Sabha polls. However, the Congress winning these seats, both of which were formerly held by the National Democratic Alliance, is a significant political consequence of the ongoing ethnic conflict in the state.
With 11 victories for the NDA and three for the Congress, the distribution of Lok Sabha seats in Assam this time remained similar to that in 2019 despite the considerable changes in the boundaries and demographics of the constituencies owing to last year’s delimitation exercise.