Raijor Dal sends pre-poll alliance proposal to AJP

GUWAHATI: The Krishak Mukti Sangra Samity-backed Raijor Dal today all but announced an imminent pre-poll alliance with All Assam Students’ Union-backed Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) ahead of the Assam Assembly elections due in March-April.

Both the parties are newly floated with firm footings on the Brahmaputra Valley on the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act plank. While the AJP is led by former AASU general secretary Lurinjyoti Gogoi, Raijor Dal is led by jailed KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi.

Announcing that the Raijor Dal has sent its proposal of alliance to Lurinjyoti Gogoi, Raijor Dal working president Bhasco de Saikia said: “Since we have adopted a common goal of uprooting BJP from the seat of power in Dispur, it is ideal we give a joint fight. Therefore, we have sent an alliance proposal to AJP president Lurinjyoti Gogoi and I am hopeful of a positive response very soon.”

Accusing the BJP-lead alliance at Dispur as “anti-people” the peasant leader said, “The people of Assam look forward to us to rescue the state from a national force that has been undermining every single wish of people of the state.”

The AJP had recently hinted at a possible alliance between the two parties when Lurinjyoti Gogoi said a good news was in the pipeline around Magh Bihu for the people of the state. Several AJP leaders had also attended Raijor Dal’s first state convention at Moran recently.

Meanwhile, the Congress has also hinted that it was open to an alliance with any “pro-people” regional party with an agendum to oust the BJP from the state. Party in-charge of the state Jitendra Singh had recently said the Congress favoured a grand alliance of all “like-minded parties” to take on the BJP and its allies.

“The Indian National Congress is a party of alliances that achieved the biggest task ever, that of India’s Independence. It is always open to alliances with parties which are with the people. I am sure, we can uproot the BJP if all like-minded parties come into a grand alliance,” Congress MP from Kaliabor Gaurav Gogoi told InsideNE in a recent exclusive interview.

The Congress has, meanwhile, forged an undeclared alliance with the perfume baron Maulana Badruddin Ajmal-led All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) for the Assembly polls. The two parties had contested 20 of the Bodoland Territorial Council elections seats in an alliance. While the Congress won one seat, the AIUDF drew a blank. The only Congress winner also joined the BJP later on.