No more in alliance with Assam Jatiya Parishad: Raijor Dal chief Akhil Gogoi
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Raijor Dal president Akhil Gogoi on Sunday mentioned his occasion has damaged the alliance with regional entrance Assam Jatiya Parishad, led by former AASU basic secretary Lurinjyoti Gogoi.
The two newly floated regional events, which have been born out of the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act sentiment, had joined arms in February this yr and contested the meeting election in March-April. The AJP had drawn a clean and the RD managed one seat with Mr. Gogoi profitable as an Independent MLA.
“We were not in alliance during the polls. We broke the tie-up in the middle of the election. There was no united opposition platform, and so we parted ways,” Mr. Gogoi informed PTI in an interview.
However, neither of the 2 events introduced the falling aside of their alliance through the election, though hypothesis was rife that their affiliation had run into tough climate, particularly on the seat choice course of.
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Out of the overall 126 constituencies, the AJP had contested in 83 seats and the RD in 38. In 16 constituencies, each the events fielded candidates and fought in opposition to one another, thereby dividing the anti-CAA votes.
Mr. Gogoi walked free on July 1 after 567 days of imprisonment following his arrest in December 2019 for his alleged position in the violent anti-CAA motion in Assam, because the National Investigation Agency failed to border any cost in opposition to him and three associates.
Asked why the occasion didn’t formally declare the tip of the alliance earlier than the polls, the first-time legislator mentioned, “We contested the assembly election alone. As of now, we are not in any alliance with the AJP.” On February 4, AJP president Lurinjyoti Gogoi had met Akhil Gogoi on the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital, the place he was present process remedy for numerous illnesses whereas being in judicial custody, and introduced finalisation of their coming collectively for the polls.
On whether or not AJP’s determination of nominating too many candidates with out consulting the RD derailed the regional alliance, Akhil Gogoi mentioned: “I do not know. I do not wish to touch upon them. We did not wish to have three poles in the election, however two – BJP and anti-BJP.”
“But the Congress cheated us by breaking the united front. At that time, we also broke the alliance with the AJP.” The Congress, which was in power for 15 years in Assam since 2001, had formed a ‘Grand Alliance’ with AIUDF, BPF, CPI(M), CPI, CPI(ML), Anchalik Gana Morcha (AGM), RJD, Adivasi National Party (ANP) and Jimochayan (Deori) Peoples Party (JPP) to fight the assembly election against the BJP-led NDA.
“After severing ties with the AJP, I myself appealed to people that they should not vote for our candidates, but vote for only the strongest BJP nominees in the respective seats. Such a thing has never happened in the world that the party president is appealing not to vote for his own party’s candidates.”
“If we had not finished this and saved it a triangular contest, the BJP would have gotten more seats. Even after a lot sacrifice, some folks nonetheless blame us for dividing anti-BJP votes,” Mr. Gogoi mentioned.
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The BJP had bagged 60 seats, whereas its allies AGP gained 9 and UPPL six. In the opposition camp, the Congress bagged 29 seats, AIUDF 16, BPF 4 and the CPI(M) cornered one seat.
Peasant leader-cum-RTI activist Gogoi’s Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) and 70 different teams had final yr shaped the Raijor Dal.
On the opposite hand, the Assam Jatiya Parishad was collectively created by the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) and the Assam Jatiyatabadi Yuva Chhatra Parishad (AJYCP) in 2020.
Mr. Gogoi, who contested as an Independent from Sibsagar, turned the primary Assamese to win an election remaining behind the bars and with none bodily campaigning.
He additionally turned the primary in the Assam Assembly to take oath on May 21 as a prisoner MLA, arriving from jail on particular permission by the courtroom.
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