Assam gears up for Assembly polls, CM Sarbananda Sonowal to cast vote on March 27

DIBRUGARH:

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal will cast his vote at Sahityarathi Laxminath Bezbaruah Sahitya Sabha in Dibrugarh on March 27.

Sonowal will cast his vote at polling station No. 161, a model polling station equipped with seating arrangements, drinking water, toilets, facilities for senior citizens and women, wheelchairs for divyanjans and rooms where mothers can breastfeed their newborns.

Health workers also sanitised the polling station on Friday.

In the first phase of the election, polling will be held in 47 seats out of the total 126 seats in the Assam Assembly polls.

The first phase will decide the fate of some prominent faces like Sarbananda Sonowal, Prasanta Phukan, Sanjoy Kishan, Debabrata Sakia, Lurinjyoti Gogoi, Akhil Gogoi, Pranati Phukan and Rupjyoti Kurmi.

Meanwhile, officials left for their respective polling stations a day ahead of the polls.

(Edited by Shankar Kumar Turha)

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