By NNN-PTI,
Guwahati, India : The politics of alliance has made an appearance in Assam state for the first time in Lok Sabha (Lower House) polls with the opposition Asom Gana Parishad and BJP coming together.
While the two parties have fought the 2001 assembly polls together, this is the first time that the two are coming together for the Lok Sabha elections.
After long-drawn discussions, the BJP central leadership and AGP top brass decided that in the parliamentary polls, the national party would get an upper hand contesting eight seats while the regional party would fight six.
In the Assembly polls, the arrangement will be different with the AGP to contest the maximum number of seats.
The AGP and BJP had won two seats each in the last Lok Sabha polls. While Dr Arun Sarmah and Sarbananda Sonowal of AGP were elected from Lakhimpur and Dibrugarh respectively, BJP’s Narayan Borkotoky won from Mangaldoi and Rajen Gohain from Nagaon.