As the country prepares for the third phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections on May 7, there will be a major showdown between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress for the Guwahati parliamentary seat in Assam. right.
BJP’s Bijli Kalita Mehdi:
First as a student, then as a teacher, and then as deputy mayor representing the BJP in 2016, Bijli Kalita Mehdi has seen Guwahati, the largest city in the northeast, and its problems.
Kalita, 45, has maintained a low profile within the Bharatiya Janata Party despite being a member of the party since 1998, but this time she won the prestigious Guwahati Lok Sabha seat. We are trying to achieve great results by acquiring .
Kalita is being fielded as the Bharatiya Janata Party’s candidate to replace sitting MP Queen Ojha, who is also a woman.
Bijli, a graduate student at Gauhati University, former president of the Bharatiya Janata Party Mohila Morcha, and deputy leader of the party’s Assam branch, is focused on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity and the Bharatiya Janata Party’s efforts to win the polls with him. I look forward to it. Mira Borthakur Goswami Member of Parliament.
Goswami was a senior colleague in the Bharatiya Janata Party until 2018. Mehdi said he was ready to take over the Bharatiya Janata Party’s stronghold in Guwahati from former Union minister Bijoya Chakraborty (elected three times in 1999, 2009 and 2014) and Ojha in 2019. .
Mira Borthakur Goswami of Congress:
Since 1977, Guwahati has elected women to parliament five times (Renuka Devi Borkotki of the Janata Party, Bijoya Chakraborty of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Queen Ojha of the Bharatiya Janata Party).
But this time, Goswami, who is a Lok Sabha candidate with the support of India Bloc, is confident of becoming a trendsetter as she becomes the first woman Lok Sabha member to win the prestigious seat.
Goswami, 51, joined the Congress after being expelled from the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2018 for “anti-party activities”.
Goswami has been vocal against the BJP over the CAA and said the people of Guwahati will vote against the “lies” and divisive politics practiced by the BJP.
“The communities of Guwahati are living peacefully. But they are tired of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s poison of divisive politics. will give a befitting reply to the Bharatiya Janata Party,” she said recently.
Mehdi and Goswami are the main candidates in Assam’s Guwahati constituency.
issued May 5, 2024, 14:53 IST
