Guwahati: The ruling BJP and its allies, Assam Gana Parishad (AGP) and United People's Party Liberal (UPPL) are leading on nine seats, opposition Congress on four seats and independents on one seat among the 14 Lok Sabha seats in Assam. According to election officials on Tuesday...

Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal in Dibrugarh, Rajya Sabha MP Kamakhya Prasad Tasa in Kaziranga, MLA Ranjit Dutta in Tezpur, sitting MP Pradan Barua in Lakhimpur, Bijuli Kalita Medhi in Guwahati, Dilip Saikia in Darrang-Udalguri and BJP in Parimal are among the seven constituencies. Is leading. Shuklabaidya is taking early lead in Silchar (SC).

NDA constituents AGP and UPPL also maintained initial lead in Barpeta and Kokrajhar with MLAs Phanibhushan Choudhary and Jayant Basumatary respectively.

Deputy Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi in Jorhat, sitting MP from Nagaon Prodyut Bordoloi, MLA in Dhubri Rakibul Hussain and Hafiz Rashid Ahmed Chaudhary in Karimganj are currently leading.In Diphu (ST) constituency, independent candidate J I Kathar has maintained a slight lead against his BJP rival Amarsingh Tiso.

Major candidates trailing include AIUDF president and three-time Dhubri MP Badruddin Ajmal and BJP's sitting Jorhat MP Topon Gogoi.

The counting of votes is taking place at 52 centers in 152 halls equipped with 1,941 counting tables, involving 5,823 counting personnel and 64 general observers.

Voting took place in three phases on April 19, April 26 and May 7 for Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Kaziranga, Sonitpur, Lakhimpur, Nagaon, Diphu (ST), Darrang-Udalguri, Karinganj, Silchar (SC), Barpeta, Kokrajhar, Dhubri and Was. Guwahati.

The NDA alliance in the state contested all 14 seats and the BJP contested 11 seats, while the 16-party United Opposition Forum Assam (UofA) constituent Congress contested 13 seats and left the Dibrugarh seat for the Assam Jatiya Parishad. .While AIUDF contested three seats and AAP contested two seats.

In the outgoing Lok Sabha, BJP had nine, Congress three, AIUDF and independents one seat each from the state.