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AIUDF meet approves alliance with Cong

By Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI, Oct 3 - The AIUDF on Saturday accorded approval to the in-principle stand to join hands with the Congress ahead of the Assembly polls.

A steering committee meet of the AIUDF, chaired by party president Badruddin Ajmal, unanimously approved the president's support to the Congress� decision to fight the polls through an alliance with the AIUDF.

The meeting also formed three sub-committees for preparation for the Assembly polls. It also called upon all anti-BJP forces to join hands with the Congress-AIUDF alliance.

Meanwhile, Leader of the Opposition Debabrata Saikia has urged all anti-BJP forces of Assam to form a grand alliance with the Congress if they desired to oust the ruling party from power.

Regarding the new political party �Raijor Dol� by the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS), Saikia said �quite a few new regional parties have come to the fore with the avowed goal of fighting against and defeating the BJP in next year�s elections�.

Extending his best wishes to the newly-formed parties, Saikia cautioned that the BJP would, however, return to power and the woes of the people of Assam would be compounded if the anti-BJP forces failed to forge a united front before the Assembly elections. He pointed out that the Congress had been fighting elections against the BJP on ideological and policy grounds even before the Lok Sabha elections of 2014.

�In fact, the ideological battle between the Congress and forerunners of the BJP had been continuing since the pre-Independence era. The Congress has fought against the BJP in each and every election in Assam since 2014, although his party has met with limited success due to various factors. Nevertheless, the Congress has stood by the people of Assam at crucial junctures. In fact, it was the stiff opposition mounted by the Congress in the Rajya Sabha that prevented the BJP-led Central government from passing the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 before the Lok Sabha elections of 2019,� he said.

Saikia said that the people of Assam had now realised that various promises made by the BJP during the Assembly elections of 2016 and Lok Sabha elections of 2014 and 2019 were nothing but a cynical ploy to garner votes and, as such, the voters desired that a non-BJP government should come to power in the Assembly elections of 2021. He asserted his belief that no political force could dethrone the BJP in Assam without the assistance of the Congress.

�If these parties truly feel that the BJP is the principal enemy of the people of Assam and their interests then they should join hands with the Congress and jointly fight the electoral battle of 2021,� he said and exhorted the anti-BJP forces to make necessary adjustments and evolve a common programme with the Congress to achieve this end.

He further urged the new parties not to tar the Congress and the BJP with the same brush as �enemies of Assam� and thereby mislead the electorate.

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