evidence: Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways and the MP-elect from Dibrugarh is set to continue his stay at the House of the People and the ministerial council. The former Chief Minister of Assam contested a Lok Sabha election for the first time in 2004 as an Asom Gana Parishad candidate. Mr. Sonowal had defeated former Union Minister Paban Singh Ghatowar in Dibrugarh itself. He joined the BJP in 2011 and got re-elected to the Lok Sabha in 2014 from Lakhimpur. Having forayed as a student leader in 1992, Mr. Sonowal would go on to hold the top administrative post in the state between 2016 and 2021 before returning to Delhi. [...] Set for his fourth tenure at the Lok Sabha, the former Union Cabinet Minister for Law and Justice won from the Arunachal Pradesh West constituency by more than 1 lakh votes. Mr Rijiju served as the Minister of State for Home Affairs in the first tenure of the Modi govt between 2014 and 2019. Since then, during the second tenure, he has held several portfolios, including Food Processing, Earth Sciences as well as Youth Affairs and Sports. The Union Minister of Tourism as well as the Minister of Development of Northeastern Region, Mr Reddy secured a second consecutive tenure at the Lok Sabha having won the Secundrabad Lok Sabha constituency. The social worker and agriculturist has also served as the Union Minister of State at the Ministry of Home Affairs (2019-21) after having served in the Telangana Legislative Assembly between 2014 and 2018.