SHIFTING LOYALTIES

Party ties don’t run deep and candidates are only too happy to switch sides if it will get them a ticket to contest the polls

Total assembly constituencies: 126 BJP

To contest 92 seats; candidates announced for 71 seats

11 sitting MLAs, including one minister, Sum Ronghang, denied tickets

All Himanta Biswa Sarma loyalists, including Jayanta Malla Baruah, Taranga Gogoi, Manab Deka and Jitu Goswami, have been given tickets

Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal’s loyalists, including sitting MLA Rituparna Baruah and Nabanita Hadique, fail to make the cut

Two former Congress ministers Ajanta Neog and Gautam Roy are not BJP candidates; both are Sarma loyalists

AGP

To contest 26 seats

Candidates announced for 8 seats; two new faces

Two former party presidents, Prafulla Kumar Mahanta and Brindaban Goswami, denied tickets

Congress

To contest 93 seats; candidates announced for 43 seats

18 of its 40 candidates are new faces

None of the six sitting MLAs—of the 43 seats for which candidates have been announced—has been denied a ticket

12 candidates who had lost the 2016 poll by slim margins have been given tickets

AIUDF

To contest 19 seats, including five where it will have a “friendly fight” against its ally the Congress

Candidates announced for 16 seats

Six of the 16 candidates are new faces

OTHERS

AJP and Raijor Dal

STATUS: Initially announced an alliance, now fielding separate candidates

BPF, Anchalik Gana Morcha, CPI, CPI (M), CPI (ML), RJD

STATUS: Part of Congress-led alliance

UPPL

STATUS: Part of BJP-led alliance