Eight Opposition parties in Assam led by the Congress on Wednesday decided to form an alliance against the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the Assembly elections expected to take place in 2026, The Hindu reported.

The parties in the proposed Opposition bloc are the Congress, the Raijor Dal, the Assam Jatiya Parishad, the Anchalik Gana Morcha, the Communist Party of India, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) and the All-Party Hill Leaders’ Conference.

The All India United Democratic Front , which had contested the 2021 polls in seat-sharing arrangements with the Congress, is not part of the bloc, the Deccan Herald reported. The party had recently announced that it would contest the Assembly polls in 2026 alone, the newspaper

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