Test for Congress comeback in Nagaon Lok Sabha bypoll

Officials leave for their respective polling stations after collecting election materials ahead of the Nagaon Lok Sabha by-election, in Nagaon district, Assam, on October 5, 2026 | Photo Credit: PTI

GUWAHATI

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) believes that winning the by-election to the Muslim-majority Nagaon Lok Sabha constituency in central Assam would pave the way for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to bag all 126 Assembly seats in the State in 2031.

Nagaon votes on Tuesday (October 6, 2026). Post-delimitation in 2023, more than 55% of the constituency’s 19 lakh voters are Muslims, a “vote bank” the Congress has allegedly relied on for decades.

The bypoll, however, could be more of a test for the Congress than the BJP because of a perceived split in the Opposition votes.