Akhil Gogoi hints Raijor Dal may go solo in Assam polls

Akhil Gogoi hints Raijor Dal may contest Assam polls independently after failed seat-sharing talks with Congress.

Hours after the Congress and three other parties announced their pre-poll alliance on Friday (March 6, 2026), Raijor Dal president and Sivasagar MLA Akhil Gogoi indicated that his regional party would contest the upcoming Assembly elections alone.

Taking to social media, he posted a three-word cryptic sentence in Assamese that translates to “The final attempt failed, too.”

The message is being interpreted as a reference to the failure of his efforts to strike an equitable seat-sharing deal with the Congress.

This was Mr Gogoi’s second signal to Congress that he wanted his “pound of flesh” in the seat-sharing arrangement. 

His party released its first list of 11 candidates a day after Congress released its first list of 42 candidates on March 3. Among the constituencies in the Raijor Dal list is Margherita, where the Congress has fielded its MP Pradyut Bordoloi’s son, Prateek Bordoloi.

His party released its first list of 11 candidates a day after the Congress announced its first list of 42 candidates on March 3.