70 organisations withdraw support to Akhil Gogoi’s Raijor Dal
The Hindu
‘Autocratic attitude’ and ‘political immaturity’ were cited as reasons for severing ties
Some 70 organisations have withdrawn their support to activist-turned-politician Akhil Gogoi’s Raijor Dal ahead of the on September 28.
Bypoll to five Assembly seats in Assam would be held on October 30 along with three constituencies in Meghalaya and one each in Mizoram and Nagaland. The bypolls in three Assam seats — Bhabanipur, Mariani and Thowrah – became necessary after the MLAs quit to join the Bharatiya Janata Party while the representatives of the remaining seats in the region died.
The 70 organisations, many of them community-based, had since 2018 been associated with the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS), a peasants’ body that Mr. Gogoi had founded. These organisations also backed the Raijor Dal formed mainly by the members of the KMSS in October 2020.
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