AGP aims for 2016 assembly elections

GUWAHATI: The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) is looking at the Lok Sabha polls this year as an exercise to gain its lost support base and aim for the 2016 assembly polls.
The last phase of the Lok Sabha polls will be held on April 24 in lower Assam constituencies including Gauhati.
The party, which once enjoyed the support of a large section of the people in the state, especially after the Assam agitation in 1985, has formed the government twice in Guwahati but gradually seemed to lose their support base for various reasons.Failing to fulfill poll promises is one of the main reasons.
"I can sense the change this time. As there is no alternative to regional politics for the development of the region, I feel people will vote for us. This Lok Sabha polls is a run-up for us to the 2016 assembly election. We will try to regain the faith of the people," AGP president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta told reporters in the city on Sunday.
AGP is contesting this election from 12 seats out of 14 in the state. "I urge the people of the state to vote in such a way that this election becomes the beginning of the rise of regionalism in the greater interests of the region. All the national parties have the same character. They just need the resources of Assam and the region but they do not say anything about the development of the region in Parliament," Mahanta said.