HT Bureau
GUWAHATI, June 4: Although BJP could not get its majority in the Lok Sabha polls, the party has improved its performance in Assam with a jump in the vote share compared to the previous general election, said Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday.
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Sarma said that the vote share for the saffron party has also increased from the 2021 assembly election as well.
The BJP has won nine seats in the state—Guwahati, Dibrugarh, Darrang-Udalguri, Lakhimpur, Kaziranga, Sonitpur, Diphu, Silchar and Karimganj. On the other hand, NDA partners Asom Gana Parishad’s Phani Bhusan Choudhury won the Barpeta seat while UPPL won in the Kokrajhar Lok Sabha constituency.
Congress on the other hand retained Nagaon parliamentary constituency while Gaurav Gogoi won in Jorhat and Rakibul Hussain defeated Badruddin Ajmal in Dhubri Lok Sabha seat.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP won nine seats and Congress won three Lok Sabha seats.
Sarma thanked the voters for the party’s good performance in the state.
“I bow down to the people of Assam for blessing @BJP4Assam and our valued NDA partners with a massive mandate of 11 out of 14 seats in the state,” Sarma wrote on micro-blogging site X.
According to Sarma, the NDA has also bettered its overall vote share to nearly 46%, a huge jump from the 39% vote share that they secured in the 2019 Lok Sabha and 44% in the 2021 assembly elections.
“This we have achieved despite the 40 percent minority population in the state,” he added.
Sarma claimed that this win translated into a lead for the NDA in more than 90 of 126 assembly segments, a much-improved outcome compared to the performance in the 2021 Assembly elections.
He further mentioned, “Clearly, today’s results are a vote for the overall transformation Assam has been experiencing in the last 3 years. With the blessings of Adarniya Shri
@narendramodi, Hon’ble Prime Minister, we remain committed to delivering on our promise to establish Assam among the top states in the country.”
AIUDF has failed to open its account this time in Assam.
