Akhil Gogoi. (File photo)
GUWAHATI: Raijor Dal’s assent to be on board with the opposition Grand Alliance has put the chief promoter Congress in a dilemma as to what should be its priority, minorities or regionalism, as the jailed peasant leader Akhil Gogoi, who heads Raijor Dal, has made it clear his entry would be subject to the ouster of the AIUDF from the combine.
If Congress snaps ties with Badruddin Ajmal’s party, Raijor Dal may get several minority-dominated seats in lower Assam as a part of a seat-sharing deal. This may also brighten up chances of the alliance in upper Assam, where indigenous communities are the deciding factor. Several Congress leaders have opposed the tie-up with Ajmal’s AIUDF, which has always been targeted for allegedly siding with migrant Muslims. The BJP has also been targeting the Congress this election for its tie-up with AIUDF.
Assam academician quits as adviser of Akhil Gogoi’s party
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Hiren Gohain’s resignation was against the jailed activist’s political stand involving the minority-based All India United Democratic Front
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Hiren Gohain’s resignation was against the jailed activist’s political stand involving the minority-based All India United Democratic Front
Noted academician and intellectual Hiren Gohain has resigned as the chief adviser of Raijor Dal over the political stand of its president, jailed rights activist Akhil Gogoi, involving the minority-based All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF).
Mr. Gogoi had in an open letter asked all Opposition parties to field consensus candidates across Assam’s 126 Assembly seats in order to prevent the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from retaining power. But he wanted the AIUDF to be kept out of such an arrangement as he believed the party headed by Maulana Badruddi
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Like this content? Republish it! h2 Bhaskar Jyoti Nath’s book: Path Aru Bikshyan /h2 br p Young , hard working and gun trotting cop Bhaskar Jyoti Nath is known more as writer than a cop . Especially, in the aftermath of the publication of his debut book of literary criticism Path aru Bikshyan, he has received critical attention from prominent literary luminaries of the state . As a cop he fights the dreaded militants in far flung forested himalayan foothills at Indo Bhutan border located fifty kilometre away from the district headquarters of Kokrajhar with his assault group of black cat Assam police commandos . When he gets time he pens critically acclaimed essays of literary criticism , translates the finest gem of world literature into Assamese. One would see him surrounded by books ranging from Classsic Illiad &Odyssey , Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of Rome to T S Eliot’s Wasteland or Rumi’s Book of Love . /p
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CM appeals for release of employees of oil exploration firm; activists slam ULFA for tarnishing Assam’s image
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CM appeals for release of employees of oil exploration firm; activists slam ULFA for tarnishing Assam’s image The threat to take action against two of its hostages appears to have boomeranged on the United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent).
An anti-ULFA (I) mood has been building up in Assam ever since February 19, when the outfit issued a statement saying “final action” would be taken against two employees of a Delhi-based oil exploration firm its cadres had abducted from a drilling site in Arunachal Pradesh’s Changlang district on December 21, 2020.