Assam seat-sharing tangle: Raijor Dal’s first record has candidate from Margherita additionally claimed by Congress | India Information
2 min learnGuwahatiMar 5, 2026 12:19 AM IST
A day after the Congress introduced its first record of 42 candidates for the upcoming Meeting elections, its ally Raijor Dal launched an inventory of 11 candidates whilst a seat-sharing deal is but to be finalised. The event factors to variations between the 2 events over seats as each the events have named candidates from Margherita constituency in Higher Assam.
Raijor Dal chief Akhil Gogoi doesn’t function within the social gathering’s first record. The elections to the 126-member Home are anticipated in April.
Raijor Dal – a regional social gathering led by Sivasagar MLA Akhil Gogoi shaped within the aftermath of the 2019-20 agitation in Assam towards the enactment of the Citizenship Modification Act – has named scholar chief Rahul Chetry as its Margherita candidate. On Tuesday, the Congress had introduced Prateek Bordoloi, who’s the son of present Nagaon MP Pradyut Bordoloi, as its candidate from the identical section. Pradyut Bordoloi had himself represented the Margherita constituency 4 instances till 2016.
Among the many Raijor Dal’s candidates can also be Abdur Rashid Mandal, the incumbent three-time MLA from the Goalpara West constituency, who had give up the Congress to affix the Raijor Dal two weeks in the past.