India, Nov. 12 -- Seven Opposition parties in Assam on Wednesday agreed to contest the next year's assembly polls in the state unitedly to defeat the state's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies, Assam Congress president Gaurav Gogoi said on Wednesday.

"Today we took part in an important exchange of ideas. We were planning to have such a meeting for a long time. We are together to rid the people of Assam from the BJP's harassment and injustices perpetrated by chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in the next elections," Gogoi said at the end of the meeting.

Apart from the Congress, the meeting was attended by Raijor Dal, Assam Jatiya Parishad, the Communist Party of India, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), CPI (ML), and Ancha...