Northeast: BJP set to win 13 LS seats, Congress sweeps violence-hit Manipur

The Congress has put a spanner in the plans of the BJP to make a clean sweep in the northeastern states which have 25 Lok Sabha seats as the grand old party is set to bag seven seats including two in violencehit ManipurThe BJP is likely to win 13 seats in these states In Manipur where the Congress could not open its account in 2019 general elections its candidates Angomcha Bimol Akoijam and Alfred Kanngam S Arthur have won both Inner Manipur and Outer Manipur seatsThe BJP had won Inner Manipur seat in 2019 while its ally Naga Peoples Front NPF had claimed the Outer Manipur seat The BJPruled state has been in grip of ethnic violence which has claimed over 220 lives since May 2023 with the Congress repeatedly questioning the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who did not visit the state since In Assam both the BJP and the Congress are set to hold their fort with nine and three seats respectively as Maulana Badruddin Ajmalled AIDUF was completely decimated NDA allies are leading in two seatsmdashBarpeta and KokrajharCongress Deputy Leader in Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi who was forced to change his seat from erstwhile Kaliabor to Jorhat following delimitation is set to defeat BJP which had won the seat for two consecutive terms Gogoi is leading over BJPrsquos Topon Gogoi by over 140 lakh votesUnion minister Sarbananda Sonowal was leading over his nearest rival Lurinjyoti Gogoi the united opposition candidate by over 275895 votes in DibrugarhIn Dhubri Ajmal was trailing Congress candidate Rakibul Hussain by over 862905 votes while NDA ally AGPrsquos Phani Bhushan Choudhury was leading over his nearest rival Deep Bayan of the Congress by 210 lakh votes in BarpetaIn Nagaland Congress candidate S Supongmeren Jamir extended his lead over his nearest rival Chumben Murry of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party NDPP by over 48000 votes in the lone Lok Sabha seat in Nagaland according to the Election Commission website The seat was held by BJPled NDA partner NDPP in 2019The BJP held onto Lok Sabha seats in Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura with Union Minister Kiren Rijiju retaining Arunachal West seat for third consecutive term and former Tripura chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb winning the Tripura West Royal family scion Kriti Devi Debbarman will enter Lok Sabha from Tripura East defeating Rajendra Reang of CPIBJPrsquos Tapir Gao won for the third term from Arunachal East seat defeating Congressrsquo Bosiram SiramThe Congress wrested the Tura Lok Sabha seat in Meghalaya from the NPP on Tuesday but lost the Shillong seat after 15 years Congressrsquo Tura candidate Saleng A Sangma defeated sitting NPP MP and sister of Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma Agatha K Sangma by over 155 lakh votes Conrad Sangma is the chief of the NPP which is a part of the BJPled NDAIn Shillong Voice of the Peoplersquos Party VPP candidate Ricky AJ Syngkon won by 371910 votes defeating threeterm Congress MP Vincent H PalaZoram Peoplersquos Movement ZPM candidate Richard Vanlalhmangaiha won the lone Lok Sabha seat in Mizoram by 68288 votes defeating his nearest rival K Vanlalvena of the Mizo National FrontSikkim Krantikari Morcha SKM candidate Indra Hang Subba won the Sikkim Lok Sabha seat defeating his nearest rival Bharat Basnett of the Citizen Action Party CAPSikkim by 80830 votesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever