Hours after the Congress and three other parties announced their pre-poll alliance on Friday (March 6, 2026), Raijor Dal president and Sivasagar MLA Akhil Gogoi indicated that his regional party would contest the upcoming Assembly elections alone.

Taking to social media, he posted a three-word cryptic sentence in Assamese that translates to “The final attempt failed, too.”

The message is being interpreted as a reference to the failure of his efforts to strike an equitable seat-sharing deal with the Congress.

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This was Mr Gogoi’s second signal to Congress that he wanted his “pound of flesh” in the seat-sharing arrangement.