BJP to announce its list of candidates on 16 March: Himanta

March 14: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is supposed to release its list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha Election on 16 March. An important meeting of the BJP Assam Election Committee was held at Guwahati on Thursday to finalise the candidates for the Assam Lok Sabha seats. However, the list of candidates will be announced in New Delhi on 16 March by the BJP Central Election Committee. This was stated by BJP heavyweight leader Himanta Biswa Sarma, as per local media reports.

Assam has 14 Lok Sabha constituencies and will witness a three-phase election on 11th, 18th and 23rd March 2019. Congress in the meanwhile has already declared a list of 10 candidates. The poll campaign will reach its fever height once the two major parties, BJP & Congress declares its full list.

Meanwhile, list of Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) candidates for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections will be announced on 17 March 2019. A delegation of the AGP will fly to New Delhi on March 15th, 2019 to finalise the seat-sharing deal with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah.