• Assam: Raijor Dal leader Kamal Kumar Medhi, along with five others, joins the AAP.

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    Assam: Raijor Dal leader Kamal Kumar Medhi, along with five others, joins the AAP.

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    color:#333333;background:#F8F9FA">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.
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    color:#333333;background:#F8F9FA">Manoj Dhanowar and Dwijen Gogoi, both from
    the Congress, joined the AAP in the presence of the party's National Secretary
    Pankaj Gupta.
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    color:#333333;background:#F8F9FA">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.
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    color:#333333;background:#F8F9FA">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.
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    color:#333333">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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