6 parties form ‘alliance’ in Assam

In what is set to give a formidable challenge to the ruling BJP-led alliance in forthcoming Assembly polls, six opposition political parties, led by the Congress, have formally announced the formation of a ‘grand alliance’ to take on the BJP-led NDA government in Assam.

Besides the principal opposition Congress, the All India

United Democratic Front (AIUDF), the Communist Party of India (CPI), the CPI(M), the Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist) Liberation, and the Anchalik Gana Morcha (AGM) led by Rajya Sabha MP Ajit Kumar Bhuyan are the part of the grand alliance.

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, who is the senior observer of the All India Congress Committee for the Assam elections made this announcement after several rounds of consultation with all the partners.

Among others present on the occasion were Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Ripun Bora, AICC general secretary in-charge for Assam Jitendra Singh, AICC general secretary and former Union minister Mukul Wasnik, senior Congress leader and AICC observer Shakeel Ahmed

Khan, leader of the state Congress Legislature Party (CLP) Debabrata Saikia, APCC vice-presidents Prodyut Bordoloi and Rakibul Hussain, AIUDF leaders Aminul Islam and Hafiz Bashir Ahmed Kasimi, AGM president Ajit Kumar Bhuyan, CPI state secretary Munin Mahanta, CPI(M) state secretary Deben Bhattacharya, and CPI(ML) Liberation State secretary Rubul Sarma, among others.