By Bhupen Goswami

Guwahati : Two months after breaking away from the BJP-led alliance government in Assam, the three AGP ministers who had submitted their resignations from Assam Govt. will resume office from today (March 13).The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) have finally decided to contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha Election together. The decision was announced by BJP National General Secretary Ram Madhav in Guwahati on Tuesday night in presence of AGP president Atul Bora, AGP working president Keshab Mahanta and Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi on Wednesday criticized the leaders of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) for their decision on contesting the Lok Sabha Elections together with BJP. “We condemn the AGP-BJP alliance,” said Gogoi, while addressing media on Wednesday in Guwahati.He slammed the regional party for their alliance with the saffron party even though the latter had clearly voiced for another Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, if voted to power. “AGP has betrayed the people of Assam as well as the leaders of the party have also betrayed regionalism,” Gogoi said adding, “KMSS will oppose the AGP-BJP alliance in the Lok Sabha elections.” Further, Gogoi also informed that KMSS had met the leaders of the AGP on Tuesday and asked the party to contest the elections alone, but the leaders of the party refused KMSS’ proposal. He said that AGP has become a party with no-principles by once again joining hands with BJP.Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Ripun Bora on Wednesday thrashed Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) after the regional party joined hands with BJP for the coming Lok Sabha elections. Slamming the party Bora said, “AGP leaders’ resignation from the Assam government in opposition to the much debated Citizenship Amendment Bill was nothing but a political drama.”“We have already expressed that AGP will be allying with the saffron party for the general elections,” said Bora adding, “AGP is not with the people of the State, and rather it is an anti-Assamese party.” Bora also took a jibe at the regional party for its alliance with BJP even though the latter had clearly voiced for another Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, if voted to power. On the other hand, APCC president Bora also informed that the list of the candidates of Congress for the first and second phase oh election will be announced within March 15.