BJP National General Secretary Ram Madhav announces: @rammadhavbjp: "Oath taking in Assam will take place on 24th evening. Hon PM Modiji, Amitbhai n many CMs and leaders will grace d occasion. All are welcome."


BJP's Chief Ministerial candidate Sarbananda Sonowal won a convincing victory in Majuli (ST) seat and outgoing Congress chief minister Tarun Gogoi did so in Titabor.

BJP's state election convenor Himanta Biswa Sarma, who left the Congress to join the saffron party, romped home with a record margin 85,935 votes over Congress candidate Niren Deka.

AGP President Atul Bora won against sitting Congress MLA Arun Phukan by 40,193 votes, while his party colleague and former chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta defeated his Congress rival Suresh Bora by a margin of 4558 votes in Baharampur.

Prominent winners for the Congress were assembly Speaker Pranab Gogoi from Sibsagar, Agriculture Minister Rakibul Hussain from Samaguri, Health Minister Nazrul Islam from Laharighat, Public Works Department Minister Ajanta Neog from Golaghat, Minority Development and Public Health Engineering Department Minister Sukur Ali from Chenga.

In the outgoing assembly, the BJP had six seats, the AIUDF 18, the Bodoland People's Front had 12, the AGP nine, the Trinamool Congress one and independents two.