A day after his party’s dismal performance in the Assam assembly election, opposition Asom Gana Parishad President Chandra Mohan Patowary today announced his resignation from the party.
Owning moral responsibility for his party’s poor showing, Mr. Patowary submitted his resignation papers to the party working President Phani Bhusan Choudhury.
In the just-concluded election, the AGP managed to win only 10 seats compared to Congress’ 78 in the 126-member House.
The party suffered humiliation when Mr. Patowary himself bit the dust in his home Dharmapur constituency which has been wrested by his Congress opponent and former minister Nilomani Sen Deka.
Opposition leader and two-time former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, who contested from two constituencies, could manage to win from one in Bahrampur.
The AGP founder-president lost to forest minister Rockybul Hussain in the Samuguri seat.
Immediately after the party’s defeat, Mr. Mahanta had alleged that victory of the Congress could be possible only because EVMs were tampered with in various strong rooms in connivance with government and police officials, a charge which Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi denied.
