This is the third alliance after the ones led by BJP and Congress in election-bound Assam
The newly formed Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) has finalised a pre-poll alliance with jailed peasants’ rights activist Akhil Gogoi’s Raijor Dal (RD).
This is the third alliance after the ones led by the BJP and the Congress in Assam ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections.
“I met Akhil Gogoi at the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital today [Thursday] and finalised the alliance. The formal announcement will be made soon,” AJP president Lurinjyoti Gogoi said.
The AJP president was the general secretary of the All Assam Students’ Union, which had formed the party in September 2020 along with the Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chhatra Parishad.
“The regional parties will fight together against the national and communal parties to form the next government,” he said.
Mr. Akhil Gogoi was arrested in December 2019 after the violent protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act that claimed at…