By our Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI/GUWAHATI, Dec 17: Over 100 leaders and cadres of the AGP, including party president Chandra Mohan Patowary, former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, working president Phani Bhushan Choudhury, MLAs, MPs, former MPs and others staged a dharna at Jantar-Mantar in New Delhi today in support of their various demands.
The AGP leaders said their demands include unconditional dialogue with the ULFA and other militant outfits of Assam, implementation of the Assam Accord and deportation of illegal immigrants, ST status to six ethnic communities of Assam, halt to mega dam projects in Arunachal Pradesh, control of price rise, settlement of inter-State border disputes etc. After the dharna, Patowary told The Sentinel over telephone that the State Government had miserably failed on all those fronts, forcing the AGP to come to New Delhi and apprise the Centre of the failure on the part of the Assam Government.
Patowary said tomorrow they will meet President Pratibha Devi Singh Patil and apprise her of the many failures of the State Government through a memorandum. THE SENTINEL
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