1978 Assam Legislative Assembly election

The 1978 Assam Legislative Assembly election was held to elect members for 126 assembly seats to constitute the seventh Assam Legislative Assembly. The Janata Party formed the first non-Congress government led by Golap Borbora with 53 seats on March 12, 1978. He resigned as chief minister on September 4, 1979 after losing the support of a majority of MLAs. Jogendra Nath Hazarika was sworn in as chief minister on 9 November 1978. But he existed in CM’s chair for only 94 days, as central government imposed President's rule in Assam[1][2]

1978 Assam Legislative Assembly election
1978
All 126 seats in the Legislature of Assam
64 seats needed for a majority
  First party
 
Leader Golap Borbora
Party JP
Leader since 1978
Leader's seat Tinsukia
Seat change
Chief Minister before election

Sarat Chandra Singha
INC

 Chief Minister

Golap Borbora
JP

Background

The Navnirman Andolan, which erupted in December 1973 started on the issue of hike in fees for an engineering college in Gujarat, Jayaprakash Narayan's movement against corruption, a three week long Bihar rail strike led by socialist leader George Fernandes, had destabilized the political atmosphere of India.[3] The sterilization program, which was tried to be implemented forcefully by Sanjay Gandhi, son of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi also created a lot of public outrage .[4]

Performance of political parties
Sl NoPartyAbbreviationParty-typeContestedWonVotes polled %Vote % in seats contested
1Communist Party of IndiaCPINational3554.0914.39
2Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPMNational27115.6225.87
3Indian National CongressINCNational1262623.6223.62
4Indian National Congress (I)INC(I)National11588.789.84
5Janata PartyJNPNational1175327.5529.95
6All India Forward BlocFBLState300.094.28
7Plain Tribals Council of AssamPTCState942.6032.54
8Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) RSPState600.448.85
9All India Gorkha League IGLRegistered100.046.08
10Revolutionary Communist Party of IndiaRCIRegistered1041.4017.68
11 Socialist Unity Centre of IndiaSUCRegistered400.072.29
12IndependentIND1525.6726.50
Total126
Source: Statistical Report on Legislative Assembly election of Assam, 1978

References
  1. "STATISTICAL REPORTS OF GENERAL ELECTION TO STATE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY (VIDHANSABHA) 1978". Election Commission of india. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
  2. "Assam Legislative Assembly - Members 1978-83". Govt. of Assam. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  3. "Four reasons why India Gandhi declared emergency". https://indianexpress.com/. 25 June 2018. Retrieved 1 December 2020. External link in |publisher= (help)
  4. Pradhanmantri - Episode 12: Emergency in India, ABP News. ABP News.
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