Guwahati, Apr 1 : The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) and its allies in Assam have emerged victorious in two Rajya Sabha seats in the state. Despite not having the required numbers for both seats, BJP’s Pabitra Margherita and coalition partner ted Peoples Party Liberal (UPPL) candidate Rwngwra Narzary won while Congress’s Ripun Bora failed to secure the required votes. Bora was the Congress Rajya Sabha member from Assam. “We won both the Rajya Sabha seats from Assam by a huge margin of 11 and 9 votes respectively,” chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma tweeted. While Margherita bagged 46 votes and Narzary got 44, Bora secured only 35 votes. One vote was disqualified. While 43 votes were needed for a candidate to win, with a total of 82 votes in the 126-member assembly, the ruling alliance was short of four votes to win the second seat. But cracks in the opposition allowed it to bag both seats. On Thursday, within hours of the election taking place, Congress suspended its MLA from Karimganj South, Siddique Ahmed, from primary membership of the party on disiplinary grounds. The party also wrote to assembly Speaker Biswajit Daimary to disqualify the MLA. However, Ahmed dismissed the allegations and said he will approach party high-command and court for reprieve. Earlier Congress alleged that five BJP MLAs violated rules during voting by publicly displaying their ballot papers, and urged the returning officer for the election to cancel their votes. The ECI however, dismissed the charges. ABI RKM