Guwahati, March 4 The opposition Raijor Dal announced its first list of 11 candidates for the upcoming Assam Assembly elections on Wednesday, a day after the Congress announced its nominees for 42 seats.
Although Raijor Dal was initially part of a Congress-led alliance, the seat-sharing agreement between the two parties has not yet been finalized.
Of the 11 candidates announced by Raijor Dal, the Margherita constituency has candidates from both opposition parties.
According to the list signed by its president Akhil Gogoi, present Congress MLA Abdur Rashid Mandal, who joined the Raijor Dal on February 16, has been nominated from the Goalpara East seat.
Gogoi won the Sivasagar constituency as an Independent candidate in the last Assam Assembly polls.
The party's first list has not named Gogoi.
The Congress announced its first list of 42 candidates for the upcoming Assembly elections in Assam on Tuesday, fielding its state unit chief Gaurav Gogoi from the Jorhat seat.
Elections to the 126-member Assam Assembly are expected in April.
