Assam Elections 2021: AJP urged by Raijor Dal to take alliance forward
Guwahati,
Jan
18:
Assam''s
newly
floated
political
party
Raijor
Dal
on
Sunday
urged
another
regional
outfit
Asom
Jatiyo
Parishad
(AJP)
to
take
forward
discussions
on
forming
a
pre-poll
alliance.
Elections
to
the
126-member
Assam
assembly
are
due
in
March-April.
Working presidents of the outfit, helmed by jailed RTI activist Akhil Gogoi, wrote a letter to AJP chief Lurinjyoti Gogoi, requesting him to decide on a date to hold discussions on forming the alliance.
"The alliance must be given priority as the prevailing situation and anti-people policies of the BJP demands it," the letter read.
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"Our party president had given a call to all regional parties to unite and form a party with one flag, one symbol but now though there are two new regional parties, we can still form an alliance in the interest of the state and its people," it said.
The
ruling
BJP
government''s
bowing
to
the
Centre''s
anti-Assam
policies
has
convinced
the
democratic
people
of
the
state
that
the
Raijor
Dal
and
the
AJP
must
come
together,
the
letter
read.
Gogoi
later
told
reporters
that
the
AJP
has
already
decided
on
the
alliance
and
there
are
no
"ifs
and
buts"
regarding
this.
"We are proceeding in the right direction and I urge people to be patient as everything will fall in place at the right time," he said.
The Raijor Dal, however, has decided not to enter into an alliance with the AIUDF, which it has labelled as a "communal party like the BJP".
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The Raijor Dal was established by the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) while the AJP was floated by the All Assam Students'' Union (AASU) and the Asom Jatiyotabadi Yuva Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) in the aftermath of the anti-CAA stir in the state.
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The agitation, spearheaded by the AASU, AJYCP and the KMSS, saw the deaths of five persons and the arrest and imprisonment of Akhil Gogoi.