Overview
- Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said NDA seat-sharing and BJP candidate lists should be settled by March 15–16, signaling an early push toward poll readiness.
- Sarma asserted the BJP is in a very strong position in about 103 of Assam’s 126 Assembly seats and indicated roughly 40 new party candidates are likely.
- The CM argued Congress could miss the Leader of the Opposition threshold of 24 seats due to seat-sharing concessions in minority-dominated constituencies.
- Opposition negotiations showed strain as Raijor Dal’s Akhil Gogoi rejected the Congress offer of 13 seats, saying his party is comfortable in only four and wants greater say in specific constituencies.
- Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla named Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi to head the India–Philippines Parliamentary Friendship Group, which the Opposition cast as vindication while the BJP called it routine and noted the SIT case has been sent to the MHA.