Guwahati, May 5 -- Congress's Assam unit chief Gaurav Gogoi, who contested his first assembly election, lost the Jorhat seat, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Hitendra Nath Goswami retaining it. The BJP was set to retain power in the state as it led in 78 seats in the 126-member assembly. At 2.25 pm, Congress was leading in 21 of the 99 seats it fielded candidates from. Its alliance partner, Raijor Dal, was leading in two seats. In 2016 and 2021, the Congress bagged 26 and 29 seats. Gogoi, son of the late former chief minister Tarun Gogoi and Lok Sabha member from Jorhat, secured 46,257 votes. Goswami, a former speaker of the state assembly, bagged 69,439 votes. Dibrugarh University political science professor Kaustubh Deka said it was a do-or-die election for the party. "With the party losing some of its stronghold seats, it will be very difficult for the Congress to come back."...