{"id":4260,"date":"2026-03-03T16:38:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=4260"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:38:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:38:51","slug":"128980319-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=4260","title":{"rendered":"Assam Assembly election: Congress releases first list of 42 candidates; fields Gaurav Gogoi in Jorhat | India News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\">\n<div class=\"_s30J clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"MwN2O\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"T22zO\">\n<section class=\"D3Wk1  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  VtlfQ \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"D3Wk1\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"zPaFh\">\n<div class=\"wJnIp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-128980993,imgsize-1021417,width-400,resizemode-4\/image-2026-03-03t212545992.jpg\" alt=\"Assam Assembly election: Congress releases first list of 42 candidates; fields Gaurav Gogoi in Jorhat\" title=\"Photo credit: ANI\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: The Congress party on Tuesday released its first list of 42 candidates for the upcoming Assam Assembly elections, even before the poll schedule was officially announced, signalling an early start to its campaign in the poll-bound northeastern state.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/assam\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Assam<\/a> Congress president and Lok Sabha MP Gaurav Gogoi has been fielded by the party from the high-profile Jorhat seat, while Debabrata Saikia, leader of the Congress Legislature Party in Assam, will contest from Nazira, according to the list released by AICC general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>Former Pradesh Congress Committee president Ripun Bora will contest from Barchalla, as the party aims to regain lost ground after being out of power in Assam since 2016.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>Other notable candidates include Abdus Sobahan Ali Sarkar from Gauripur, Markline Marak from Goalpara West (ST), and Girish Baruah from Bongaigaon. Mahananda Sarkar has been fielded from Barpeta (SC).<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>Seats reserved for Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes feature prominently. Ramen Singh Rabha will contest Boko-Chaygaon (ST), Nandita Das will fight from Hajo-Sualkuchi (SC), and Satyabrat Kalita from Kamalpur.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>In urban and strategic constituencies, Mira Borthakur Goswami will contest Dispur, Diganta Barman from Barkhetri, and Ashok Kumar Sarma from Nalbari.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>The 126-member Assam Assembly is expected to go to polls in April.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/><span class=\"em\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">(With inputs from PTI)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/assam-assembly-election-congress-releases-first-list-of-42-candidates-fields-gaurav-gogoi-in-jorhat\/articleshow\/128980319.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Congress party on Tuesday released its first list of 42 candidates for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11548,6856,11552,724,11549,11551,11550,723,719,720,721,418,11555,11554,11553,722],"class_list":["post-4260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-assam","tag-assam-assembly-elections","tag-assam-congress-2023","tag-breaking-news","tag-congress-party-candidates","tag-debabrata-saikia-nazira","tag-gaurav-gogoi-jorhat","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-indian-national-congress","tag-mahananda-sarkar-barpeta","tag-northeast-india-elections","tag-ripun-bora-barchalla","tag-today-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}