Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) activists participate in a bike rally in Dibrugarh district, ahead of Assembly polls. (PTI photo) GUWAHATI: The influential students’ body, All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu), will issue directives to its members at the state executive meeting on March 21, to indirectly campaign in favour of the two new regional parties, the Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) and Raijor Dal, for the upcoming assembly election in the state. Aasu, which claims to be an ‘apolitical’ organization, for the first time took a ‘political stand’ by backing the formation of AJP last year to oust the BJP-AGP combine from power. The mass movement against the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act, which started in December 2019, gave rise to a call for a new political party. Aasu and another allied organization, the Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP), played a proactive role in the formation of AJP. Later, AJP joined hands with Raijor Dal, supported by the leading peasant organization, Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS), to float a new regional front against the BJP-AGP and the Congress-AIUDF led alliance.