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Homecoming season 

Sanjib Baruah

: Last Tuesday’s celebration of the Asom Gana Parishad’s 23rd birth anniversary was aimed at winning back the goodwill that the party once enjoyed. Prafulla Kumar Mahanta’s homecoming and the return of three breakaway factions, including his, are expected to reinvigorate the party.   The leaders   ....Read more

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Homecoming in AssamBy: A Noor | Monday , 20 Oct '08 7:58:44 AM Reply | Forward The AGP had no other option but to cosy up to the BJP rather than "let" it retain its seats in "refugee dominated Barak Valley". The Assamese hindus which the AGP claims to represent constitute 29.3% of the population which can give them at most 25-35 seats in the Assembly of 126 unification or not. That is not going to be enough.There is a realignment in the demographics now . The Bodos with control over 13 seats are a distinctive group and definitely not with AGP. For the AGP to survive it had to go with BJP or AUDF and it chose the former for now.Moreover the firebrand students of the yesteryears are a confused bunch of frustrated politicians with hardly any chance to arouse the passions like they once did. With the immigrant muslims having acquired decisive control over Assam Sanjib Baruah adds to the confusion rather than offering any insight that may lead to a solution
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