GUWAHATI: Influential peasant organisation, Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) has asserted that it would go ahead with its plans to float a party of its own if the Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP), the newly-formed regional party under the aegis of the All Assam Students Union and Asam Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad, failed to respond to its sustained call for a united regional front by September 20.
Addressing mediapersons here on Tuesday, KMSS president Vasco de Saikia however said that the peasant organisation was hopeful that the AASU, AJYCP and the conveners committee of Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) would respond favourably to its call of a united regional force under one party, flag and emblem.
“We want all the forces that have been against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) to unite under one banner. However, we would like to state here that our open-handedness should not be mistaken as weakness. So, if there is no favourable response from AJP by September 20, we will hold talks with like-minded parties, organisations and citizens and subsequently float our own regional party,” Saikia warned.
The KMSS president also said that the formation of separate regional parties would ultimately benefit the ruling BJP.
KMSS advisor Akhil Gogoi, who is currently serving a jail term, has time and again appealed to the indigenous organisations and anti-CAA forces to put up a united fight against the ruling party or the Opposition Congress and All India United Democratic Front in the Assam Assembly elections in 2021.
It may be mentioned that the regional party formed under the aegis of AASU and AJYCP has already started work in 25 districts of the state with the conveners committee informing that all organisational work would be completed across the districts by October 31, 2020.
The party’s political convention has been scheduled in the first half of November when the final state committee of the new party will be announced
Floated as a “political alternative” to the ruling BJP in the run-up to the 2021 polls in Assam, the new regional party is likely to contest in at least 80 constituencies.