{"id":238485,"date":"2024-04-08T00:09:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T18:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=238485"},"modified":"2024-04-08T00:09:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T18:39:43","slug":"political-outfit-of-sonowal-kacharis-joins-oppn-forum-in-assam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/04\/08\/political-outfit-of-sonowal-kacharis-joins-oppn-forum-in-assam\/","title":{"rendered":"Political outfit of Sonowal-Kacharis joins oppn forum in Assam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guwahati, Apr 7 (PTI) A regional political outfit of the Sonowal-Kachari community on Sunday joined the United Opposition Forum, Assam (UOFA), a coalition of various parties in the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sonowal Kachari Gana Mancha formally joined the UOFA in the presence of the forum&#8217;s president and Congress&#8217; state unit chief Bhupen Kumar Borah and MLA Akhil Gogoi at Dibrugarh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Borah, in a post on X, said leaders of the Sonowal Kachari Gana Mancha, a regional political party, that has fought the election to the Sonowal Kachari Autonomous Council earlier, held a meeting with him and Gogoi, who heads the Raijor Dal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A team led by Mancha General Secretary Shri Gopal Sonowal discussed the political situation in five Lok Sabha constituencies&#8211;Sonitpur, Lakhimpur, Dibrugarh, Jorhat and Kaziranga&#8211;and promised their support. This marks their formal entry into the United Opposition Forum &#8211; Assam,&#8221; the state Congress chief wrote on the micro-blogging site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UOFA was formed as a 16-party forum last year to fight the Lok Sabha elections unitedly against the BJP-led coalition in the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the member parties have now pitted candidates against each other in several constituencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati, Apr 7 (PTI) A regional political outfit of the Sonowal-Kachari community on Sunday joined the United Opposition Forum, Assam (UOFA), a coalition of various parties in the state. The Sonowal Kachari Gana Mancha formally joined the UOFA in the presence of the forum&#8217;s president and Congress&#8217; state unit chief Bhupen Kumar Borah and MLA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-238485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}