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kia defeated veteran Congress leader in Tezpur LS seat. Gifted Congress can- Das faced defeat in Barpeta LS seat by
and sitting Rajya Sabha member Bhu- didate Sushanta Borgohain also lost to Congress legislator Abdul Khaleque.
baneswar Kalita in Mangaldoi Par- BJP nominee and State minister Tapan Only seat inside Assam, which the
liamentary constituency. Similarly, Kr Gogoi in Jorhat LS seat. BJP failed to retain was Nagaon Par-
another senior Congress leader and a BJP nominee Queen Oja easily de- liamentary constituency, where local
former Union minister Paban Singh feated Congress candidate Bobbeeta legislator Rupak Sarmah faced defeat
Ghatowar was defeated by sitting BJP Sharma in the prestigious Guwahati to his Congress rival Pradyut Bordoloi,
MP Rameswar Teli in Dibrugarh LS LS constituency. Similarly sitting BJP who was a minister in Tarun Gogoi’s
seat. Same fate was reported for aged MP Pradan Baruah emerged victori- cabinet. Business tycoon Badruddin
Congress leader Biren Sing Engti, who ous against Congress candidate Anil Ajmal led AIUDF could retain only one
lost the electoral fights to his near- Borgohain in Lakhimpur LS seat. The seat as Ajmal himself won from Dhu-
est rival Haren Sing Bey of BJP in the Congress retained the Kaliabor LS seat bri Parliamentary constituency de-
autonomous district (Diphu) LS seat. where sitting MP Gaurav Gogoi de- feating his nearest Congress rival Abu
Congress nominee and former State feated his closest rival Mani Madhav Taher Bepari. But the party, known as
additional chief secretary MGVK Mahanta, who was nominated by BJP sympathetic to migrant Muslim set-
Bhanu was trounced by BJP leader ally Asom Gana Parishad (AGP). An- tlers in Assam, failed in Barpeta and
and State minister Pallab Lochan Das other AGP nominee Kumar Deepak Karimganj LS seats. Lone successful in-

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