CPI to contest 17 seats in Assam

SIVASAGAR, April 9: CPI, which recently snapped ties with the AGP for its proposed alliance with the BJP, will contest 17 of the 126 Assembly constituencies in the May 10 election in the State. CPI Rajya Sabha MP Drupad Borgohain said 17 candidates had been selected. In Sivasagar district, the party would put up candidates in all the six seats, he said. He also said that sitting MLA and former Flood Control Minister Promode Gogoi would contest from Sivasagar constituency. Borgohain, however, denied that there was any alliance forged with the Congress as reported in the media.