Duliajan, April 6 -- Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA from Duliajan, Rameswar Teli, who has also served as Dibrugarh MP, has returned to contest his old Assembly constituency amid anti-incumbency concerns within the party.

Teli will face Congress candidate Dhruba Gogoi in the 2026 Assam Assembly elections.

Rameswar Teli has replaced two-time MLA Terash Gowalla as the BJP candidate, after the sitting legislator was nominated for the Rajya Sabha seat in Assam. Teli had won the 2001 and 2006 polls from the Duliajan seat and has also served as the Dibrugarh MP before entering the Rajya Sabha. The BJP leader has also served as the Union Minister of State (MoS) for Food Processing Industries and Labour.

Now, the BJP has called him bac...