2016 Assam Assembly Election - BJP and AGP to contest the election together after alliance deal Wednesday March 02,2016

 BJP and AGP to contest  the election together after alliance deal Wednesday March 02,2016

BJP and  Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) will together contest the upcoming Assembly election in Assam.

AGP leader Prafulla Kumar Mahanta on Wednesday March 02,2016 announced his party has sealed the deal with the BJP.

AGP chief Atul Bora made the alliance announcement after a meeting with the BJP top leadership, including the party's national president Amit Shah, at his New Delhi residence.

AGP leader Prafulla Kumar Mahanta​ said a formal announcement about the alliance will be made by the two parties in a day or two where the number of seats to be contested by them would be made public.

BJP's chief ministerial candidate Sarbananda Sonowal, AGP president Atul Bora besides others were present in the meeting.

AGP will play the junior partner and contest 24 seats while the rest 126 will be divided among BJP and three smaller allies.

Note

The BJP has also forged an alliance with the Bodoland Peoples Front (BPF) to jointly fight the Assembly polls in Assam.

Congress has already announced that they will fight alone in the 126 Assembly seats and the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) announced to fight in 60 seats

2011 Assam Assembly Election Results

Party Name	Seats
Indian National Congress (INC)	78
Assam United Democratic Front (AUDF)	18
Bodoland Peoples Front	12
Asom Gana Parishad (AGP)	10
Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP)	5
Independent (IND)	2
All India Trinamool Congress (AITC)	1
Total	126