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	'''Asom Gana Parishad''' ([[translation]]: ''Assam People's Council'', {{small\|abbr.}} '''AGP''') is a state [[political party]] in [[Assam]], [[India]]. The AGP was formed after the historic [[Assam Accord]] of 1985 and formally launched at the [[Golaghat Convention]] held from 13–14 October 1985 in [[Golaghat]],<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19851115-birth-of-agp-leads-to-assam-being-divided-into-two-irreconcilable-camps-802167-2014-01-17\|title=Birth of AGP leads to Assam being divided into two irreconcilable camps\|newspaper=[[India Today]]\|author=Indranil Banerjie\|date=17 January 2014}}</ref> that let [[Prafulla Kumar Mahanta]] to be elected as the youngest chief minister of the state. The AGP has formed government twice from 1985 to 1989 and from 1996 to 2001.		'''Asom Gana Parishad''' ([[translation]]: ''Assam People's Council'', {{small\|abbr.}} '''AGP''') is a state [[political party]] in [[Assam]], [[India]]. The AGP was formed after the historic [[Assam Accord]] of 1985 and formally launched at the [[Golaghat Convention]] held from 13–14 October 1985 in [[Golaghat]],<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19851115-birth-of-agp-leads-to-assam-being-divided-into-two-irreconcilable-camps-802167-2014-01-17\|title=Birth of AGP leads to Assam being divided into two irreconcilable camps\|newspaper=[[India Today]]\|author=Indranil Banerjie\|date=17 January 2014}}</ref> that let [[Prafulla Kumar Mahanta]] to be elected as the youngest chief minister of the state. The AGP has formed government twice from 1985 to 1989 and from 1996 to 2001.

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{{Infobox Indian Political Party
|party_name = Asom Gana Parishad
|logo =
|abbreviation = AGP
|colorcode = {{Asom Gana Parishad/meta/color}}
|president = [[Atul Bora]]
|secretary = [[Ramendra Narayan Kalita]]
|founder = [[Prafulla Kumar Mahanta]] <br /> [[Bhrigu Kumar Phukan]] <br /> [[Biraj Kumar Sarma]]
|leader = [[Prafulla Kumar Mahanta]]

|foundation = 1985
|alliance = [[North-East Democratic Alliance]]<br />[[National Democratic Alliance]]
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|rajyasabha_seats = {{Composition bar|1|245|{{Asom Gana Parishad/meta/color}}}}
|state_seats_name = [[Assam Legislative Assembly]]
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|eci = State Party<ref>{{cite web|title=List of Political Parties and Election Symbols main Notification Dated 18.01.2013|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/ElectoralLaws/OrdersNotifications/ElecSym19012013_eng.pdf|publisher=Election Commission of India|access-date=9 May 2013|location=India|year=2013}}</ref>
|ideology = [[Regionalism (politics)|Regionalism]], Anti Bengali sentiment
|position = Center-right
|headquarters = AGP Complex, Gopinath Bordoloi Road, [[Ambari]], [[Guwahati]] - 781001
|publication =
|youth = [[Asom Yuva Parishad]]
|students = Asom Chatra Parishad
|women = Asom Mahila Parishad
|peasants = Asom Krishak Parishad
|symbol =[[File:Indian Election Symbol Elephant.png|100px]]<br />Elephant
}}

'''Asom Gana Parishad''' ([[translation]]: ''Assam People's Council'', '''AGP''') is a state [[political party]] in [[Assam]], [[India]]. The AGP was formed after the historic [[Assam Accord]] of 1985 and formally launched at the [[Golaghat Convention]] held from 13–14 October 1985 in [[Golaghat]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19851115-birth-of-agp-leads-to-assam-being-divided-into-two-irreconcilable-camps-802167-2014-01-17|title=Birth of AGP leads to Assam being divided into two irreconcilable camps|newspaper=[[India Today]]|author=Indranil Banerjie|date=17 January 2014}}</ref> that let [[Prafulla Kumar Mahanta]] to be elected as the youngest chief minister of the state. The AGP has formed government twice from 1985 to 1989 and from 1996 to 2001.

The party split in 2005, with former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta forming the [[Asom Gana Parishad (Progressive)]], but regrouped on 14 October 2008 in Golaghat.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1081015/jsp/guwahati/story_9969896.jsp|title=AGP unification amid scepticism – Sections still unsure about party fortunes|newspaper=[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)|The Telegraph]]|author=Samir K. Purkayastha|date=15 October 2008}}</ref>

The party won 14 seats out of 126 in the 2016 Legislative Assembly Elections; a historic win for the party. Further, it shares power with the [[Bodoland People's Front]] and [[Bharatiya Janata Party]].

Currently it is a part of [[North-East Regional Political Front]] consisting of political parties of the northeast which has supported the [[National Democratic Alliance (India)]]. The party will form an alliance with BJP in coming assembly elections as well.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Singh|first=Bikash|title=Asom Gana Parishad to contest assembly polls in alliance with BJP|work=The Economic Times|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/asom-gana-parishad-to-contest-assembly-polls-in-alliance-with-bjp/articleshow/79648467.cms|access-date=2021-01-18}}</ref>

==History==
AGP was a result of a six-year-long [[Assam Agitation]] against illegal infiltration of foreigners from [[Bangladesh]] into [[Assam]], led by [[All Assam Students' Union]].<ref>[http://www.agpassam.org/history.html Official Website] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090409213125/http://www.agpassam.org/history.html |date=9 April 2009 }}</ref> For years, people of [[Assam]] have been complaining against infiltration of illegal migrants from neighboring [[Bangladesh]] ([[East Pakistan]] till 1972), as they feared that it is altering the demographic, social and economic make-up of the state.

In 1979, AASU started a peaceful democratic movement demanding detection of all illegal migrants in the state, deletion of their names from the country's electoral rolls, and deportation of all of them under the laws of the land. This movement continued for years, and the Assembly Election was held in 1983 in this hostile environment, which was protested by the agitating people.

AASU then constituted the [[All Assam Gana Sangram Parishad]] (AAGSP) which consisted of representatives of various organizations including the [[Asom Sahitya Sabha]], two regional political parties – Asom Jatiyabadi Dal and Purbanchaliya Loka Parishad, the Sadau Asom Karmachari Parishad, Asom Jatiyabadi Yuva-Chatra Parishad, Asom Yuvak Samaj, All Assam Central and semi-Central Employees’ Association etc.

Several rounds of discussions with successive governments in [[New Delhi]] led to the signing of the [[Assam Accord]] on 15 August 1985 between the AASU and the government, with the prime minister [[Rajiv Gandhi]] standing witness to it. The movement, known as [[Assam Agitation]] could have come to be remembered as one of the longest peaceful movements in the world after the freedom movement of India. But the [[Nellie massacre]] remains as one of the most barbaric incidents of independent India.

Following this, the State Assembly was dissolved and the Congress government headed by [[Hiteswar Saikia]], which came to power in February 1983, was dismissed.

The [[Golaghat Convention|Golaghat National Convention]], organized in [[Golaghat]] on 13–14 October 1985 decided that a regional political party under the name and style of Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) be constituted and the Asom Gana Parishad was finally launched in [[Golaghat]] on 14 October 1985.

By that time, the previous central executive committee of the [[All Assam Students’ Union]] (AASU) was dissolved at a convention in [[North Lakhimpur]] in September, and [[Prafulla Kumar Mahanta]], the president of the AASU during the period of the peaceful democratic movement, was elected the president of the presidium of the new political party. [[Asom Jatiyabadi Dal]] and the [[Purbanchaliya Loka Parishad]] also merged with AGP. Members from other organizations also joined the party.

The AGP contested the State Assembly elections held in December 1985 and swept the polls by winning 67 of the 126 seats apart from capturing seven of the 14 Lok Sabha (Parliament) seats and formed the Government of Assam. The party again formed the government in Assam after winning the elections in 1996.

Party leader [[Prafulla Kumar Mahanta]] served as the [[Chief Minister of Assam]] for two terms, first from 1985 to 1990 and then again from 1996 to 2001. Asom Gana Parishad was a part of the [[National Front (India)|National Front]] government from December 1989 to November 1990.

Its [[Member of Parliament]] [[Dinesh Goswami]] was the Union Minister of Law and Justice in the [[V. P. Singh Ministry]]. The party was again a part of the [[United Front (India)|United Front]] governments headed by [[H. D. Deve Gowda]] and [[Inder Kumar Gujral]]. AGP leaders [[Birendra Prasad Baishya]] and [[Muhi Ram Saikia]] were the Union Minister of Steel and Mines and the Union Minister of State for Human Resources Development respectively in the United Front governments.

The party has been marginalized in the politics of [[Assam]]. Once a formidable force, it has been sidelined by the [[Bodoland People's Front]] and the [[AIUDF]] of [[Badruddin Ajmal]]. Currently, the party has only 14 [[M.L.A]] in the [[Legislative Assembly of Assam]].

==Internal Splits and Mergers==
The AGP in March 1991 underwent a split when party general secretary and former [[Assam]] Home Minister [[Bhrigu Kumar Phukan]], former Union Law Minister and MP [[Dinesh Goswami]], former state Education Minister [[Brindaban Goswami]], [[Assam Legislative Assembly]] speaker [[Pulakesh Barua]] and others formed the [[Natun Asom Gana Parishad]] (''natun'' means ''new'' in [[Assamese language|Assamese]]). This fraction came back to the party fold in 1992.

In 2000, former Assam [[Public Works Department|PWD]] minister and senior party leader [[Atul Bora Sr.|Atul Bora]] (Senior) moved away along with [[Pulakesh Barua]] and formed [[Trinamool Gana Parishad]].

After the second AGP Government's reign under [[Prafulla Kumar Mahanta]] came to an end and [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] regained power, numerous allegations were raised against him related to the corruption during his tenure, government's involvement in secret killings, and Mahanta's overall inactive leadership. These led to his demotion from being President of the party and later he was expelled from the party on 3 July 2005 after being accused of anti-party activities. Mahanta then formed his own party, [[Asom Gana Parishad (Progressive)]].

In 2008, a process started to reconcile the differences among all the breakaway fractions and to bring back everybody under the mother party umbrella to strengthen the regional party movement in [[Assam]]. Finally, on 14 October 2008, all breakaway groups reconciled in one umbrella at the historic town Golaghat. [[Prafulla Mahanta]] merged his AGP(P) with it. [[Atul Bora]] and [[Pulakesh Barua]] merged their TGP with the AGP and farmer leader and former legislator of Patacharkuchi, [[Pabindra Deka]] too merged the [[Purbanchaliya Loka Parishad]] (PLP) with it.

==Splits from AGP==
2011: Firebrand Youth Leader [[Sarbananda Sonowal]] resigned from All Executive posts within AGP and joined in [[Bharatiya Janata Party]], due to dissatisfaction with and amongst the senior leadership of the party who were trying to forge an alliance with a party that was against the scrapping of the controversial IMDT Act. "The AGP was born out of the illegal foreigners' issue after the six-year-long [[Assam Movement|Assam agitation]]; 855 people laid down their lives in the agitation.

However, the party has failed to honor the sacrifice of the martyrs by deviating from its principles. But I have no grievances against the dedicated grassroots-level workers. Since the AGP has failed to tackle the illegal migrants' problem, I've joined the BJP keeping in mind the interest of the people of [[Assam]] and the fact that I'll be able to highlight the problems and issues of the state at the national level," Sonowal, the former AGP general secretary, said.

On 8 February 2011, Sonowal joined [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] in the presence of the then BJP National President [[Nitin Gadkari]] and senior leaders like [[Varun Gandhi]], [[Vijay Goel (politician)|Vijay Goel]], [[Bijoya Chakravarty]] and state [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] president [[Ranjit Dutta]]. He was immediately appointed a member of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] National Executive and then later on State Spokesperson of the state [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] unit, prior to his current assignment to head the state as the new president.

Again on 3 July 2013, senior party leader [[Atul Bora Sr.|Atul Bora]] once again left the party and joined [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]].

==2016-present==
In May 2016, after the Bharatiya Janata Party '''(BJP''') led [[National Democratic Alliance (India)|National Democratic Alliance]] which included parties like Asom Gana Parishad and [[Bodoland People's Front]] formed its first government in [[Assam]], and formed a new alliance called the [[North-East Democratic Alliance]] (NEDA) with [[Himanta Biswa Sarma]] as its convener. The Chief Ministers of the north eastern states of [[Sikkim]], [[Assam]] and [[Nagaland]] also belong to this alliance. Thus, the Asom Gana Parishad joined the [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] led NEDA.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/amit-shah-holds-meeting-with-northeast-cms-forms-alliance/story-YDYLQ6YsImuzZOQ6Zev5MO.html|title=Amit Shah holds meeting with northeast CMs, forms alliance|newspaper=[[Hindustan Times]]|author=HT Correspondent|date=25 May 2016}}</ref>

In November 2016, [[Atul Bora]] was elected for President of Asom Gana Parishad second time amending party's constitution ‘one man one post’ as he is also minister of Agriculture, Horticulture and Food Processing, Animal Husbandry and Veterinary in [[Sarbananda Sonowal]] Ministry.<ref>[http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=nov2816/at052 Atul Bora AGP president for second term]</ref>

In January 2019, they broke an alliance with [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] on the issue of [[Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016|Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019]] but in March 2019 the party returned to [[North-East Democratic Alliance]] for the Lok Sabha election. As per the agreement, AGP will contest on 3 seats, [[Bodoland People's Front]] at one and [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] on ten seats.<ref>[https://www.deccanherald.com/national/national-politics/agp-bjp-join-hands-two-months-after-separation-722964.html BJP, AGP back together after 2-month divorce]</ref><ref>[https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/elections/lok-sabha/india/agp-to-fight-lok-sabha-polls-with-bjp-in-assam/articleshow/68388940.cms AGP to fight Lok Sabha polls with BJP in Assam]</ref>

==List of Chief Ministers==

{| class="wikitable sortable"; style="text-align:center"
|-
! rowspan=2 scope=col| {{Abbr|No.|Number}}{{efn|A parenthetical number indicates that the incumbent has previously held office.}}
! rowspan=2|Name
! rowspan=2|Portrait
! rowspan=2|Constituency
! colspan=3 | Term of office<ref>[http://assamassembly.nic.in/cm-list.html Chief Ministers] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116091830/http://assamassembly.nic.in/cm-list.html |date=16 January 2014 }} from the [http://assamassembly.nic.in/ Assam Assembly] website</ref>
|-
! From
! To
! Days in office
|-
| 1
| [[Prafulla Kumar Mahanta]]
| [[File:The former Chief Minister of Assam, Shri Prafulla Kumar Mahanta calling on the Minister of State for Culture and Tourism (Independent Charge), Dr. Mahesh Sharma, in New Delhi on July 20, 2017 (cropped).jpg|100x100px]]
| [[Nowgong (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Nowgong]]
| 24 December 1985
| 28 November 1990
| {{Age in years and days|1985|12|24|1990|11|28}}
|-
| 2
| [[Prafulla Kumar Mahanta]]
| [[File:The former Chief Minister of Assam, Shri Prafulla Kumar Mahanta calling on the Minister of State for Culture and Tourism (Independent Charge), Dr. Mahesh Sharma, in New Delhi on July 20, 2017 (cropped).jpg|100x100px]]
| [[Barhampur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Barhampur]]
| 15 May 1996
| 17 May 2001
| {{Age in years and days|1996|5|15|2001|5|17}}
|-
|}

== Members in Rajya Sabha ==

* [[Birendra Prasad Baishya]]
* [[Bhadreswar Buragohain]]
* [[Bijoya Chakravarty]]
* [[Parag Chaliha]]
* [[Kumar Deepak Das]]
* [[David Ledger]]
* Dr. [[Jayashree Goswami Mahanta]]
* Dr. [[Nagen Saikia]]
* Dr. [[Arun Kumar Sarma]]

== Members in Lok Sabha ==

* [[Parag Chaliha]]
* [[Dinesh Goswami]]
* [[Ataur Rahman]]
* [[Gakul Saikia]]
* [[Muhi Ram Saikia]]
* Bhadreswar Tanti<ref>{{Cite web|title=Members : Lok Sabha|url=https://loksabha.nic.in/members/partyardetail.aspx?party_code=4&lsno=8|access-date=2021-01-18|website=loksabha.nic.in}}</ref>
* [[Prabin Chandra Sarmah]]
* [[Keshab Mahanta]]
* Dr. [[Arun Kumar Sarmah]]
* [[Birendra Prasad Baishya]]
* [[Sarbananda Sonowal]]
* [[Joseph Toppo]]

==See also==
*[[Golaghat Convention]]
*[[Natun Asom Gana Parishad]]
*[[Assamese Language Movement]].

==Notes==
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==References==
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{{National Democratic Alliance |state=collapsed}}
{{North-East Democratic Alliance}}

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