NEWS
VIEWS
INTERVIEWS
CAMPAIGN TRAIL
ISSUES '98
MANIFESTOS
OVERHEARD
INDIA SPEAKS!
YEH HAI INDIA
CHAT

State:	Assam
Constituency:	Dhubri
Total Votes Polled:	810647
Winner: INC	Nurul Islam	314594
Runner Up: AGP	Onkarmal Agarwal	182373
Margin: 132221 (16.85%)

In the 1991 election the BJP came second, winning 19.6 % of the vote. The next time round, its tally had improved to 21.79 % but it nevertheless slipped to the third place. Since 1952 all the MPs have been Muslim.