Asom Sonmilito Morcha[5] (ASOM), formerly known as United Opposition Forum, is a political alliance of 18 secular and democratic parties in Indian state of Assam.
[4][6][7] Due to disagreement on seat sharing for Assam Legislative Assembly bypolls, the opposition parties went ahead excluding the Indian National Congress.
But only eight of them including Indian National Congress, All India United Democratic Front, Bodoland People's Front, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation, Anchalik Gana Morcha and Rashtriya Janata Dal came into a seat sharing agreement for dethroning the incumbent BJP government.
[8] However the alliance was unable to defeat the BJP and its allies, but it gained 43.68% of the total votes polled and got 50 seats.
[10] 17 political parties came together to fight the elections but because of the uncompromising attitude of Congress,the alliance failed to unite during the elections as Congress fought on 13 seats left 1 seat i.e. Dibrugarh seat for the Assam Jatiya Parishad.Other constituent parties declared their candidates.