Congress, Raijor Dal Seal Alliance; Gaurav, Akhil Gogoi Unite
3 min learnMar 20, 2026 12:34 PM IST
After years of an on-again, off-again relationship and each events declaring earlier this month that alliance talks had fallen by way of, the Congress and regional celebration Raijor Dal introduced that that they had lastly reached a seat-sharing settlement for the upcoming Meeting polls in Assam.
The choice was introduced by Assam Congress president Gaurav Gogoi and Raijor Dal president Akhil Gogoi late Thursday evening, with each holding arms and exchanging gamosas, and Akhil saying his celebration would work to make Gaurav the subsequent Chief Minister.
Underneath this settlement, the Raijor Dal will contest 13 seats, two of which – Gauripur and Goalpara East – will probably be in pleasant contests with the Congress. The 11 seats which were left by the Congress for the Raijor Dal embrace Dhing, the seat over which there was a disagreement that had led to the collapse of talks earlier, and Margherita, the place the Congress candidate Prateek Bordoloi withdrew his candidacy on Thursday after his father, Pradyut Bordoloi, jumped ship to the BJP. It additionally consists of Sivasagar, from the place Akhil himself is MLA and the place he’ll contest once more.
“At this time, an understanding between the Raijor Dal and the Congress has been arrived at… The Raijor Dal has taken the choice to start out working from immediately to make Gaurav Gogoi Assam’s Chief Minister,” mentioned Akhil.
Earlier, the Raijor Dal had mentioned it had initially requested 27 seats however agreed to cut back this to fifteen on the Congress’s request, and that in the end the Congress agreed to 13 seats.
With the discharge of its third record of candidates on Thursday, the Congress has fielded candidates in 101 seats. Underneath the seat-sharing preparations it has finalised throughout the 126 seats within the Assam legislative meeting, the Assam Jatiya Parishad will contest 10 seats, the All Celebration Hill Leaders Convention 2, and the CPI(M) and the Raijor Dal 11 every.
Within the opposing NDA, the BJP will contest 89 seats, the Asom Gana Parishad 26, and the Bodoland Individuals’s Entrance 11.
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The All India United Democratic Entrance (AIUDF), which is contesting the election alone, has named 126 candidates. Former NDA ally, the Bodoland-based United Individuals’s Celebration Liberal, can be contesting alone and has to this point named 18 candidates.
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