AGP looking for new allies

By Our Special Correspondent

GUWAHATI, AUG. 19. Once bitten twice shy. Yet to recover from the effect of the severe reverses suffered by it in the State Assembly elections in March as a result of its alliance with the Asom Gana Parishad, the Assam BJP has decided to ditch the AGP and go it alone in the panchayat elections to be held by the year-end.

A senior BJP leader and former State unit president, Mr. Narayan Barkataki, said on Saturday that the party would have no truck with the AGP in the panchayat polls.

Virtually friendless in Assam politics, the AGP has begun a search for new allies. It has constituted a five-man committee to explore the possibility of allying with `like- minded' parties for the panchayat polls.

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