Dibrugarh: AAP Debuts, Congress Steps Out Of Contest

Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal is contesting the Dibrugarh Lok Sabha seat for the third time, having wrested it for the first time from the Congress in 2004 as an Asom Gana Parishad candidate. He lost the seat to Congress candidate in 2009 and shifted to Lakhimpur in 2014 from where he won and went on to become a minister of state in the first cabinet of PM Modi. He is locked in a triangular contest with Assam Jatiya Parishad's Lurinjyoti Gogoi and the Aam Aadmi Party's Manoj Dhanowar.