New Delhi, April 7 -- Assam Assembly elections are scheduled for 9 April. Today, 7 April, is the last day of campaigning for the 126 seats of Assam.

As many as 2.49 crore voters are eligible to vote on Thursday. Throughout the high-octane campaign, parties are pushing hard to consolidate support in both traditional strongholds and emerging battlegrounds.

Assam has been under BJP rule since 2016. Sarbananda Sonowal, now a Union Minister, ran it first till 2021. Then Himanta Biswa Sarma took over.

The Congress-led alliance, known as the Asom Sonmilito Morcha (ASM) comprises Raijor Dal, Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP), Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)), Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation (CPI(ML) Liberation), and...