{"id":52002,"date":"2024-04-12T09:35:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T09:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=52002"},"modified":"2024-04-12T09:35:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T09:35:53","slug":"nomination-process-commences-for-four-assam-lok-sabha-seats-in-third-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/12\/nomination-process-commences-for-four-assam-lok-sabha-seats-in-third-phase\/","title":{"rendered":"Nomination Process Commences for Four Assam Lok Sabha Seats in Third Phase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Guwahati:<\/strong> The Election Commission announced the commencement of the nomination process for four Lok Sabha seats, including Guwahati, in Assam, slated for the third phase of polling, starting Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The process kicked off with the issuance of notifications for the third phase nationwide. Voting in Guwahati, Barpeta, Dhubri, and Kokrajhar (ST) constituencies is scheduled for May 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the notification, the deadline for filing nominations is April 19, with scrutiny scheduled for the following day. Candidates can withdraw their candidature until April 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vote counting will occur on June 4, in sync with the rest of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the prominent Guwahati constituency, BJP&#8217;s Bijuli Kalita Medhi, a vice president of Assam BJP and former president of the party&#8217;s women&#8217;s wing, is expected to face Congress newcomer Mira Barthakur Goswami, the president of Assam Pradesh Mahila Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the ruling front, AGP has fielded senior leader Phani Bhusan Choudhury, while Congress has nominated Deep Bayan. CPI(M) has named its lone MLA, Manoranjan Talukdar, for the Barpeta seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rakibul Hussain, Deputy Leader of the Congress Legislature Party, will contest from Dhubri, challenging AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal and AGP&#8217;s Zabed Islam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UPPL has nominated MLA Joyanta Basumatary for Kokrajhar (ST) constituency, with Congress backing Garjan Mushahary and Bodoland People&#8217;s Front (BPF) fielding Kampa Borgoyary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the current Lok Sabha, the BJP holds nine seats in Assam, with allies AGP and UPPL lacking representation. Congress has three seats, while AIUDF has one, alongside an Independent candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati: The Election Commission announced the commencement of the nomination process for four Lok Sabha seats, including Guwahati, in Assam, slated for the third phase of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,22],"tags":[3778,1032,73,1033,3777],"class_list":["post-52002","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news","category-national","tag-assam-lok-sabha","tag-earlypostdaily","tag-india","tag-latestnews","tag-nomination-process"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52004,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52002\/revisions\/52004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}