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A Congress state successful Assam, the Raijor Dal, has advised the Congress enactment to resoluteness the quality implicit seat-sharing for the upcoming Assembly elections, opening a rift wrong the absorption confederation successful Assam.
Sivasagar MLA Akhil Gogoi, who heads Raijor Dal, said connected Friday (February 20, 2026) that helium would constitute to the Congress enactment “for the past time” to resoluteness the differences.
Mr. Gogoi said Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra privation the seat-sharing look to beryllium acceptable to each the allies. He urged the State enactment enactment to align with their outlook to prevention the alliance.
Hoping for a affirmative response, helium said that the deficiency of clarity and consistency from the Congress enactment was frustrating. He claimed that issues the allies had agreed upon during a caller gathering of the Congress-constituted screening committee were going nowhere.
Mr. Gogoi said the Raijor Dal had demanded 15 seats successful the projected confederation arrangement, but the Congress was adamant astir contesting 100 seats. Assam has a full of 126 Assembly constituencies.
Unfair terms
“How tin an confederation relation if everything goes according to the Congress, which wants 100 seats?” helium asked, adding that his enactment has truthful acold received 4 constituencies of its choice.
He said the Raijor Dal has sought 5 seats — 3 of which are independent — successful minority-dominated areas, but the Congress was offering the enactment lone one. “Treating specified seats arsenic the exclusive domain of the Congress is unfair,” helium added.
