AGP-BJP seat-sharing: AGP seeks 1 Lok Sabha seat with better winning prospects

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GUWAHATI: The AGP (Asom Gana Parishad) has sought at least one prospective Lok Sabha seat with demography favouring it from the BJP in their seat-sharing arrangement.

The Lok Sabha election will be in early 2024. Parties have already started their preparations for the electoral battle.

Though the AGP and the BJP have not yet held any formal meeting for seat-sharing, the two coalition partners have had several unofficial discussions. In such informal talks, AGP leaders made it known to their allies that though they had fielded candidates in three seats in the last Lok Sabha election, the demography of none of the seats was in their favour. The regional party sought at least one Lok Sabha with a bit more perspective demography to win the Sabha poll.

In the seat-sharing arrangement between the two allies, the AGP got Kaliabor, Barpeta and Dhubri seats to field candidates in the 2019 Lok Sabha election. The regional party laid thrust on the Nagaon Lok Sabha seat to field a candidate. It has already started ground-level work in the constituency. The Congress won this seat in 2019 by defeating the nearest BJP candidate. The AGP feels that the demography of the Nagaon Lok Sabha seat is slightly better for it than that of Kaliabor.

When asked about the preparations for the coming Lok Sabha election, AGP general secretary Manoj Saikia said, "Our district and LAC-level committees are holding organizational meetings. The party also carries out its membership drive simultaneously with its eyes set on the 2024 Lok Sabha election." The AGP has no members in the Lok Sabha. It, however, had a Rajya Sabha member, Birendra Prasad Baishya.

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