Jorhat Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Results - Jorhat is one of the Lok Sabha constituencies in Assam. The state has 14 parliamentary seats. The Jorhat seat comprises 10 Assembly segments including Jorhat, Titabar, Mariani, Teok, Amguri, Nazira, Mahmara, Sonari, Thowra, Sibsagar. The constituency is a GENERAL seat. The BJP, the INC are the main parties in the constituency. In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Topon Kumar Gogoi from BJP won the seat with a margin of 82,653 votes. Topon Kumar Gogoi was polled 543,288 votes with a vote share of 51.00 % and defeated Sushanta Borgohain from INC who got 460,635 votes (43.50 %). In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, Kamakhya Prasad Tasa from BJP won the seat and was polled 456,420 votes with a vote share of 48.99%. INC Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Results -INC candidate Bijoy Krishna Handique got 354,000 votes (38.00 %) and was the runner-up.Kamakhya Prasad Tasa defeated Bijoy Krishna Handique by a margin of 102,420 votes.
According to the petition, the SOP stated that a technical SOP would be issued separately for necessary compliance, but it has not been done so far, raising doubts over the suitability of the testing and verification process of EVMs.
In the recently held Lok Sabha elections, the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance secured 43 out of the state's 80 Lok Sabha seats compared to the NDA's 36, down from 64 in the 2019 polls. The BJP also lost the much-talked Faizabad seat under which Ayodha falls.
FACT CHECK: A video claiming that Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami distributed money during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections is going viral on social media. India TV's fact-check reveals that the claim is false and the video is from 2022.
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen criticized the Indian government upon his arrival in Kolkata, emphasizing the need for political open-mindedness and secularism. Sen highlighted issues such as wrongful imprisonments, economic disparities, among others.
Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury lost to TMC candidate Yusuf Pathan in Baharampur constituency by around 85,022 votes, according to the Election Commission of India data. Adhir Chowdhury secured 4,39,494 votes while Yusuf Pathan secured 5,24,516 votes.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: According to the EC's Standard Operating Procedure, the cost submitted by manufacturers BEL and ECIL to carry out EVM "check and verification" is Rs 40,000 (plus 18 per cent GST) per set of EVM.
PM Modi visited ancient Nalanda University ruins in Bihar ahead of inaugurating the new Nalanda University campus in Rajgir. This was his first visit to state since Lok Sabha polls. Established around 1,600 years ago, the original Nalanda University is among world's first residential residential.
