GUWAHATI, March 2 -- In an apparent strategy change ahead of the Assembly elections, the newly-formed political outfit Raijor Dal today said that all opposition parties, including the Congress, should field a common candidate in all constituencies to defeat the BJP.
It, however, refrained from making it clear if the party, which had earlier announced a poll truck with the Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP), would side with the Congress-led grand alliance.
Raijor Dal president Akhil Gogoi, who is currently lodged in jail, in an open letter vouched for fielding a common candidate against the ruling BJP in all the constituencies.
Insisting that the present poll strategy adopted by the opposition parties is very unlikely to trouble the BJP in the e...