AGP, BJP inch closer, seat-sharing talks today

With the Lok Sabha elections drawing closer, the Asom Gana Parishad and BJP are inching closer in order to work out a seat-sharing arrangement in Assam.

With the Lok Sabha elections drawing closer, the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and BJP are inching closer in order to work out a seat-sharing arrangement in Assam. A delegation of the regional party, headed by its president Chandra Mohan Patowari, is leaving for New Delhi on Monday to hold discussions with top BJP leaders on the issue.

“We are meeting senior BJP leaders in New Delhi tomorrow to finalise our strategy for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections,” Patowari said on Sunday. He, however, said though the regional party was entering into an understanding with the BJP, it was not joining the NDA at the moment.

The AGP leaders would also meet leaders of other national parties and discuss the recent serial blasts in Guwahati and three other towns of the state. “We are also planning to meet the President and place before her the demand for dismissal of the Congress-led Government headed by Tarun Gogoi,” Patowari said.

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“The Congress-led Government has failed utterly to protect the lives of the people. But what is more alarming is that it is also scared of the jehadi elements, including the HuJI, which are responsible for the deadly serial blasts of October 30,” the AGP president said.

The AGP and BJP had won two seats each out of a total of 14 Lok Sabha seats in Assam in 2004. The Congress party had won nine while one had gone to an independent who is currently an ally of the Congress and UPA.

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