Nagaon/Silchar, Sept. 16: The offspring of prominent political leaders have got a thumbs up in Assam Assembly bypolls, the results of which were declared today.

While AIUDF supremo Badruddin Ajmal’s son Abdur Rahim Ajmal won the Jamunamukh seat, Rajdeep Goala, the son of late Dinesh Prasad Goala, a senior Congress leader, was declared winner from Lakhipur constituency.

The only one who does not come from a political dynasty is Silchar’s BJP winner Dilip Paul, 59.

Abdur Rahim will join his elder brother Abdur Rahman, the South Salmara MLA, in the Assembly. While their father was elected the MP from Dhubri for the second consecutive term, their uncle Sirajuddin Ajmal won the Barpeta parliamentary seat.

Besides Sirajuddin, Gaurav Gogoi, son of chief minister Tarun Gogoi, and Sushmita Dev, daughter of former Union minister and Congress heavyweight Santosh Mohan Dev, contested the last Lok Sabha polls and emerged victorious from Kaliabor and Silchar constituencies respectively.

“Justice has been served to the people through my victory. The verdict has given a clear message that the Congress will not be able to take voters for a ride for long,” Abdur Rahim said soon after he was declared winner from Jamunamukh.

The BJP was able to wrest the prestigious Silchar seat by a staggering margin of 37,441 votes for the fourth time in this traditional Congress citadel.

The BJP’s victory was fuelled by an unprecedented surge of support exuded by the town’s voters who were impressed by the young politician’s simplicity, his performance in the Silchar civic body and also because of the aversion of the largely middle class gentry of this town against Assam minister Gautam Roy, a political observer said. Dissidence within the Congress ranks also proved costly for the party.

The party’s state headquarters in Guwahati witnessed celebrations following the victory.

In the third bypoll in Lakhipur Assembly seat in Cachar district, it was the triumph of the family of deceased trade union leader and seven-time MLA and a college professor, Dinesh Prasad Goala. He bequeathed the legacy of his family’s unrivalled supremacy in the seat since 1983, when he first won it, to his elder son and Congress candidate Rajdeep Goala, 30, who won the byelection by a margin of 9,836 ballots in a five-pronged contest.

The Congress rode on the support bank of tea tribes and Hindi-speaking voters, numbering about 42,000, thanks to the mobilisation of a concerted campaign in the over 30 gardens in the constituency by the Intuc-affiliated Barak Valley Cha Shramik Union.

While the Assam PCC refused to speak on the party’s defeat in Silchar, the state BJP leaders were quick to react, saying the Congress’s days were numbered in Assam.

Cachar deputy commissioner G.M. Hazarika, who was the returning officer for both the seats, said counting got over at 2.30pm.