Lok Sabha Election Results 2024: Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi bagged the Jorhat constituency in the Lok Sabha elections 2024. He defeated the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP's) Topon Kumar Gogoi by a margin of 144393 votes. Gaurav Gogoi, a Lok Sabha MP from Assam’s Kaliabor since 2019, is the Deputy Leader of the Congress and the leader of the party in Assam.
In Assam, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured nine seats, while the Congress emerged victorious with three seats. Besides Jorhart, the grand old party won Dhubri and Nagaon Lok Sabha seats. On the other hand, the saffron camp bagged Darrang-Udalguri, Guwahati, Diphu, Silchar, Kaziranga, Lakhimpur, Sonitpur, Karimganj, and Dibrugarh.
Gaurav Gogoi is the son of former chief minister of Assam, Tarun Gogoi. Following delimitation, Gaurav, the Deputy Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha, was assigned the task of taking on the BJP in Jorhat, which became a stronghold of the ruling party over the last 10 years.
Gogoi, who holds a B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering, has also studied public administration in the US. He is married to Elizabeth Colebourn. The Lok Sabha elections 2024 were held in Assam from April 19 to May 7 in three phases. While the BJP lost its majority in the polls, which were announced on Tuesday, the alliance led by it easily passed the magic number of 272 seats.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the saffron party's Gogoi won by a margin of 82,653 votes by receiving 5,43,288 votes against 4,60,635 of Congress' Sushanta Borgohain, who subsequently joined the saffron party.
The 41-year-old Gaurav tasted the flavour of electoral democracy for the first time in 2014 when he contested for the Lok Sabha when his father was the CM of Assam. He won and was elected to the 16th Lok Sabha from Kaliabor.
Gaurav Gogoi became a member of several House committees, such as the Standing Committee on Railways, the Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, and the Committee on Violation of Protocol Norms and Contemptuous Behaviour of Government Officers with Members of Lok Sabha. Gaurav was re-elected to the Lower House for the second consecutive term from Kaliabor in 2019.