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The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) on Monday decided to snap its two-year-old alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Assam after the Joint Parliamentary Committee submitted its report on the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, in Parliament. However, the AGP’s departure is unlikely to affect the Sarbananda Sonowal-led government as the other regional ally, the Bodoland People’s Front (BPF), has decided to stick with the BJP. The national party has 61 legislators in the 126-member Assam Assembly. The majority mark in the House is 64, and with the BPF’s 12, the ruling alliance has 73 legislators. “We had decided some time ago to pull out of the alliance. The announcement was made today after all efforts to convince the Centre about the threat the Citizenship Bill poses for the indigenous people of Assam failed,” senior AGP leader and former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta told The Hindu . Mr Mahanta said the party would step up opposition to the “anti-Assam” Bill as well as fight for the proper implementation of the Assam Accord. The accord, signed in 1985, had ended a six-year agitation against illegal migrants. The announcement was made by AGP president and Agriculture Minister Atul Bora in New Delhi, who “saw no point in continuing with the alliance”.
Source : https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/citizenship-bill-agp-quits-assam-coalition/article25936182.ece
