Mahanta denies tie-up with BJP

By Our Special Correspondent

GUWAHATI, MARCH 13. The Chief Minister, Mr. Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, claimed today that the four-party alliance led by the AGP would come back to power on its own ``with a comfortable majority'' in the coming Assembly polls.

Addressing mediapersons as AGP president at the party office, he dismissed as ``completely baseless'' the unending speculation in some sections of the media that there would be an AGP-BJP poll alliance - covert if not overt, after the elections if not before.

``No such proposal has come from the BJP, nor have we made any such offer to them,'' he said.

He said discussions with some smaller parties for seat adjustment were going on but declined to name them till the elections were announced.

About the merger of the United People's Party of Assam (UPPA) with the Samajvadi Party of Mr. Mulayam Singh Yadav, Mr. Mahanta said he had not been formally informed about it and it was the UPPA, not the SP, which continued to be a member of the alliance.

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