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The BJP and the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) have disclosed the seat-sharing pact for the upcoming Assam assembly polls. According to the pact, AGP will contest 24 out of the 126 seats.
But soon after the announcement, members of both political parties came out in protest.
Local leaders and the workers of BJP and Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) across the Brahmaputra Valley burnt effigies of senior party leaders and threatened to put up independent candidates against the official nominees.
Breaking office furniture in party offices in various districts, the demonstrators took to the streets, coming out in massive processions, burnt effigies of their party leaders.
They claimed that despite the grass-root workers working all this while to ensure the victory of their party candidates, the leadership stitched the alliance for seat sharing to deprive them of contesting polls.
The protesters from both parties also claimed that though their respective candidates had the potential to win from the seats, they have been allocated to new people who have never worked in the constituency.
They have underestimated our worth and what we can do.BJP protesters on BJP-AGP alliance
They alleged the party leadership went ahead with the alliance to serve their narrow political interest despite the party leaders and workers at the grass-root and constituency level strongly opposing their respective parties’ joining hands with each other.
The BJP workers and supporters also blamed the newly inducted former Congress leader Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma of being behind the alliance to bring BJP to power in the state by any means ignoring its workers sentiments and hard work.
The BJP and AGP will jointly fight the coming assembly elections as announced by former Chief Minister and AGP leader Prafulla Kumar Mahanta on Wednesday in Delhi after top AGP leadership had an hour-long discussion with BJP President Amit Shah.
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