DineshTrivedi joins BJP, AIADMK allots 20 seats to BJP in TN

Former TMC MP Dinesh Trivedi on Saturday joined the BJP in New Delhi.Trivedi said it was the golden moment he had been waiting for. In Tamil Nadu the AIADMK has give20 assembly 20 seats, Kanyakumari Parliamentary seat to BJP for upcoming polls. The announcement made on Friday night, was signed by Chief Minister Edapaddi Palaniswami, Deputy Chief Minister O Pannerselvam, BJP state in-charge CT Ravi and its state unit chief L Murugan.The names of the seats that would go to the BJP are yet to be released. BJP has fielded former Union Minister Pon Radhakrishnan for the bye election to Kanyakumari Lok Sabha seat. The bye election will be held on 6th of next month along with state assembly elections. It was necessitated following the passing away of Congress MP H Vasanthakumar, who succumbed to Covid-. The AIADMK is yet to finalise seat-sharing with actor Vijayakant's DMDK.

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal will contest from his sitting Majuli assembly seat while state Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma will try his fate from his sitting Jalukbari constituency in the ensuing state assembly elections. BJP, Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the United People’s Party Liberal, UPPL finalized the seat sharing arrangement under which AGP will contest on 26 seats and UPPL on 8 seats. BJP General Secretary Arun Singh announced the first list of 70 BJP candidates for the assembly polls  Party has fielded state BJP chief Ranjit Kumar Dass from Patacharkuchi seat and Jitu Goswami will contest from Barhampur while Surbhi Rajkonwar has been given ticket from Sibsagar. Hitendra Nath Goswami will contest from Jorhat. Singh said, the BJP has replaced 11 sitting MLAs with new faces. On the occasion, AGP President Atul Bora also announced the name of the seats to be contested by his party in the elections.