Overview
- Several Assam BJP leaders denied tickets have quit or threatened independent runs, including Jayanta Das in Dispur and Nihar Ranjan Das, with outreach under way by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and state chief Dilip Saikia.
- Atul Bora, initially poised to rebel after the Dispur seat went to recent entrant Pradyut Bordoloi, stood down following talks with Sarma and signaled plans to pursue a 2029 Lok Sabha bid.
- The BJP has fielded 28 former Congress leaders and dropped 19 incumbents in Assam, a shift Sarma links to the 2023 delimitation and a push for new faces, taking the party’s announced slate to 90 of 126 seats.
- Amiya Kumar Bhuyan said he would resign and is likely to contest as an Independent from Bihpuria after the BJP fielded former Assam Congress chief Bhupen Borah for the seat.
- In West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee launched her Bhabanipur campaign as the first supplementary roll from the Special Intensive Revision is due March 23, with the BJP planning rallies by Narendra Modi and Amit Shah and facing grassroots protests over ticket choices.