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AGP gets closer to BJP
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ASIANAGE on 05 July, 2008 03:40:47
 
By Our Special Correspondent
New Delhi
July 5: The secular credentials of the UNPA took a hit with the Asom Gana
Parishad (AGP) leaders initiating its parleys with the BJP. Sources disclosed a
day after the crucial UNPA meeting on July 3 that the AGP leaders rushed to the
BJP to look at the options for electoral understandings.
Asked about the AGP’s move to inch towards the saffron forces, outfit chief
Brindaban Goswami indicated that it was "open" to adjustments with the BJP in
the forthcoming general elections.
For Mr Goswami, the Congress is a "communal outfit".
It was learnt that a six-member AGP delegation had met BJP leader Sushma
Swaraj.