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Nagaon LS Bypoll: Campaigning Ends, BJP Confident of Wresting Congress Seat

About 19.07 lakh voters will choose among 15 candidates as the BJP, Congress and AIUDF compete in a likely three-cornered race.

  • On Sunday, October 4, 2026, the campaign for the Nagaon Lok Sabha by-election in Assam ended at 5 p.m., 48 hours before polling begins on October 6 with 15 candidates competing.
  • Pradyut Bordoloi's departure from Congress to join the Bharatiya Janata Party before April 2026 triggered this by-election, setting up a three-cornered contest between Devasish Sharma, Sibamoni Bora, and Badruddin Ajmal.
  • Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi called Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma a "real-life Ghajini" who "forgets what he says every 15 minutes," while Ajmal mocked Rakibul Hussain for being "born eating dried fish, not biryani."
  • During the final campaign days, Sharma filed a police case against Ajmal for accusing him of murdering Mumtaz Begum, one of two women allegedly pushed into Bangladesh in June.
  • Chief Minister Sarma claimed a BJP victory would enable the party and its allies to sweep all 126 Assembly seats in the 2031 state polls, after winning 102 seats in April; votes count on October 9.
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Election campaigning for the by-elections in the Nandigram and Rajnagar assembly seats will conclude on Sunday evening. In Nandigram, candidates from several parties, including Congress candidate Milan Pradhan and BJP candidate Hasirai Rath, are campaigning. In Rajnagar, the BJP, Congress, AJUP, and both factions of the TMC are in the fray. Voting for both seats will take place on October 6th, and counting will take place on October 9th.

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Latestly broke the news in Mumbai, India on Sunday, October 4, 2026.
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