Titabor (Assam), Mar 26 (PTI) Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has a clear edge over all his 11 opponents in Titabor Assembly constituency which goes to polls on April 4.
"The chief minister''s win is a foregone conclusion, but now we are striving hard to ensure that he wins by a record margin of votes and creates electoral history not only in the state but also in the country," Titabor block Congress president Sonadhar Rajkhowa said.
The chief minister, who had a minor operation in New Delhi last week, is yet to hit the campaign trail, but his supporters are confident he would ride the poll solely on the basis of development work he had initiated in this once-backward constituency.
Another party worker Ghana Hazarika points out that the real contest is for the second spot which is expected to be a triangular one between AGP''s Montumoni Dutta, CPI''s Kula Das and BJP''s Kaminish Deori.
A traditional Congress bastion, Titabor, which is in the Jorhat Lok Sabha constituency, has been represented by Gogoi since 2001 after he was elected in a by-election following the party''s wresting of power from the Asom Gana Parishad.
In 2001 Assembly polls, the seat was won by his brother Dip Gogoi who later vacated it for the elder Gogoi, who, then a Lok Sabha MP from Kaliabor parliamentary constituency, had led the party to a thumping win in the Assembly polls as the state unit Congress president.
In 2006, the chief minister had polled 65.15 per cent of the total votes and had won by 32,501 votes over his CPI opponent Kula Das.
The high-profile constituency has witnessed a remarkable development spree during the last 10 years with water supply schemes, metalled roads, market places, a public library and a sports complex being the prominent initiatives taken to make it a model Assembly segment.
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