Digital Desk: On May 2, Raijor Dal Vice
President Kamal Kumar Medhi, along with five other members of the regional
party, jumped ship and joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). Aside from Raijor Dal
members, other Congress leaders have quit the Grand Old Party and joined the
AAP.
Manoj Dhanowar and Dwijen Gogoi, both from
the Congress, joined the AAP in the presence of the party's National Secretary
Pankaj Gupta.
Members who left the Raijor Dal to join the
AAP include Jitul Deka, Anurupa Dekaroja, Binoy Deka, Dipankar Kalita, and
Dibyajyoti Deka. On May 2, at 7 p.m., the newly inducted members will meet with
AAP chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Meanwhile, the Aam Aadmi
Party is attempting to grow its influence across India and present a genuine
alternative to the Congress, which is on the decline.
Their recent landslide victory in the Punjab
Assembly elections has given their pan-India ambitions a tremendous boost. It's
no different in Assam, where the party is working to increase its base and replace
the Congress as the state's main opposition party. Following the recent results
of the Guwahati Municipal Corporation elections, when it managed to take one
ward, the party is riding high on confidence. The Raijor Dal is an Indian
political party located in the state of Assam, founded on October 2, 2020, by
activist turned politician Akhil Gogoi.
The party's foundation came after more than 15 years of fight by
its parent mass organisation, Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS), for land
rights, farmer rights, environmental conservation, and the defence of the lives
and livelihoods of Assamese workers. Progressive sub-nationalism is the party's
professed political ideology, which encompasses federalism, equal rights,
self-reliance, and scientific temper.
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