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Assam Election 2021 LIVE updates: Around 8,109,815 voters will decide the fate of 264 candidates which includes big shots like Chief Minister Sarbananada Sonowal

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	<strong>Assam Election 2021 LIVE updates: </strong>The voting for the 47 constituencies in Phase-1 is underway today. Around 37 per cent voters have cast their ballots so far in the first phase of the Assam election 2021. Men and women in large numbers queued up in front of the polling stations well before the voting started at 7 am.</div>
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	Polling will continue till 6 p.m as the Election Commission extended the time by an hour in view of the Covid-19 induced situations.<br />
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	Around 8,109,815 voters will decide the fate of 264 candidates which includes big shots like Chief Minister Sarbananada Sonowal, Atul Bora, Akhil Gogoi and Ripun Bora. As many as 37 incumbent MLAs are re-contesting in the Assam phase 1 elections 2021, comprising 24 from BJP, 6 from Congress and AGP (Asom Gana Parishad) and one from AIUDF (All India United Democratic Front). There are 23 women candidates and 78 independents in the fray for the first phase polls. Of the 81,09,815 voters, 40,77,210 are males, 40,32,481 are females and 124 are transgenders.</div>
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	Some of the important seats to watch out for in Phase 1 of assembly elections in Assam are Majuli, where state CM Sarbananda Sonowal is contesting. Assam Congress President Ripun Bora is fighting from Gohpur. Jailed farmers&#39; rights activist and president of newly formed Raijor Dal Akhil Gogoi is in the fray from Sibsagar.</div>
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Assam Election 2021 LIVE: 72.1% polling recorded till 6 pm, says ECI

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Assam election 2021: Polling starts for first phase; CM Sarbananda Sonowal, top Opposition in fray

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	Voting began at 7 am on Saturday for 47 seats in the first phase of the assembly elections in Assam to decide the fate of Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, and a host of ministers and opposition leaders, officials said.</div>
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	Altogether 264 candidates, including 23 women, are in the fray in the first phase, they said.</div>
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	A total of 300 companies of security forces have been deployed in the first phase, in which people are voting at 11,537 polling stations across 12 districts of Upper Assam and the Northern Bank of Brahmaputra. <strong><a href="https://www.business-standard.com/article/elections/assam-polls-polling-starts-for-first-phase-cm-sonowal-top-oppn-in-fray-121032700123_1.html" target="_blank">Read on...</a></strong></div>

Your vote will ensure the progress, development and prosperity of Assam, says Himanta Biswa Sarma

Today is a glorious day when you get an opportunity to exercise your democratic right of casting your vote. Please do go out in large numbers. Your vote will ensure the progress, development and prosperity of Assam:&nbsp;Himanta Biswa Sarma, Assam minister

Assam polls: Stakes high for BJP, AGP in first phase today; Sonowal in fray

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	The stakes for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ally Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) are high in Assam where 47 seats of 126 Assembly constituencies across 34 districts will go for polling to the first of the three-phase elections on Saturday.</div>
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	Polling will begin at 7 am today in 47 constituencies across 12 districts in Assam where the ruling BJP and Congress-AIUDF alliance are locked in a direct electoral contest.</div>
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	In the first phase, a total of 264 candidates are in the fray on the 47 seats -- 42 from 11 districts of the Upper and northern region of the state and five seats from central Assam&#39;s Nagaon district.</div>

Assam election 2021 LIVE: Model polling booth at Jorhat district

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Assam polls: Voters follow physical distancing at polling station set up at a school in Majuli

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Assam election 2021: Call upon my young friends to vote, tweets PM Modi

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	Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday urged people to cast votes in record numbers as polling began in the morning for the first phase of assembly elections in West Bengal and Assam.</div>
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	&quot;The first phase of elections begin in Assam. Urging those eligible to vote in record numbers. I particularly call upon my young friends to vote.</div>
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	&quot;Today, Phase 1 of the West Bengal Assembly elections begin. I would request all those who are voters in the seats polling today to exercise their franchise in record numbers,&quot; he tweeted.<br />
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			The first phase of elections begin in Assam. Urging those eligible to vote in record numbers. I particularly call upon my young friends to vote.</p>
		&mdash; Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) <a href="https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/1375622671606501378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Assam election 2021: Voters turn out in large numbers in Rupahi, Nagaon District

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		<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WATCH</a> Voters turn out in large numbers in Rupahi, Nagaon District, for voting in the first phase of Assam Assembly elections <a href="https://t.co/5vjn7GgVNn">pic.twitter.com/5vjn7GgVNn</a></p>
	&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href="https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1375633765813248002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2021</a></blockquote>
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