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We investigate dipole asymmetries in four large radio surveys, each spanningmore than 80\% of the sky. Two of them, the Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS)and the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS), have recently yielded dipoles thatappear incongruent with each other as well as seem inconsistent with previousradio survey dipoles and the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) dipole. Becausethese radio surveys have large overlaps in sky coverage, comprising hence largemajority of common radio sources, one would not expect significant differencesbetween their radio dipoles, irrespective of their underlying source of origin.We examine here in detail these radio dipoles, to ascertain the source ofincongruency amongst them. We find the VLASS and RACS data to be containingsome declination-dependent systematics, seemingly in the vicinity of thedeclination limit of each survey. We show that the effects of such systematicscan be mitigated by restricting the declination limits of the respective surveyduring the dipole determination. A weighted mean of the sky coordinates of thusderived dipoles from the four radio surveys lies within $1.2\sigma$ of the CMBdipole direction. However, the amplitude appears significantly larger, $3.7\pm0.6$ times or more than the CMB dipole. This puts in doubt not only theconventional wisdom that the genesis of all these dipoles, including that ofthe CMB dipole, is due to the Solar peculiar motion, it also raisesuncomfortable questions about the Cosmological Principle (CP), the basis of thestandard $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model.

Resolution of the incongruency of dipole asymmetries within various large radio surveys -- implications for the Cosmological Principle