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AGP, BJP join hands for 2016 Assam Assembly elections , Asom Gana Parishad , Assam assembly elections 2016, Assam assembly elections polls, Sarbananda Sonowal, Bodo People’s Front, Ram Madhav, Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, AGP- BJP alliance,assam polls
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) will jointly fight the coming Assam Assembly elections, former chief minister and AGP leader Prafulla Kumar Mahanta announced today.
The announcement came after top AGP leadership had an hour-long discussion with BJP president Amit Shah in New Delhi.
"We had a meeting with the BJP president where we have decided to contest the coming Assam Assembly polls together," Mr Mahanta told.
With the tie-up with AGP, the BJP now has two allies in Assam, the other being the Bodo People’s Front (BPF). “We also have the Rabha and Tiwa community leaders with us,” said Sonowal.
The BJP, which won only five seats in the 2011 assembly elections with 12.9 per cent vote share, won seven of the state’s 14 Lok Sabha seats in 2014 with a total vote share of 37 per cent. The AGP, which won 10 seats in 2011 with a 19.72 per cent vote share, won no seat in 2014. The Congress, which has won three successive assembly elections since 2001, won 78 seats and polled 39.42 per cent in 2011, but suffered a major setback in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, when it won just three seats with about 30 per cent vote share.