Party opposes CAA, has filed a case in Supreme Court: Phani Bhushan Choudhury

AGP forms new city committee

Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI: In the wake of a section of party workers’ resentment over the stance of three AGP Ministers on the CAA issue, senior AGP leader and Minister Phani Bhushan Choudhury said on Wednesday that the regional party is against the CAA and that is why it has already filed a case in the Supreme Court against the Act.

“Despite the AGP being an ally at the coalition government at Dispur, it has filed a case against the CAA at the apex Court. There’s none above the Supreme Court in any legal battle,” Choudhury said.

Reacting to former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta’s statement that Choudhury was not involved in the Assam agitation against foreigners, the Minister said, “The people of Bongaigaon know it better whether I was involved in the Assam Agitation or not. Even after signing the Assam Accord, when Mahanta first went to Bongaigaon, I was felicitated at the public meeting for my involvement in the Agitation.”

Meanwhile, the AGP dissolved its Guwahati city committee on Tuesday night, and formed a new committee on Wednesday. Rajen Medhi as the unit’s president and while Khanin Bora and Dr Tapon Das are its general secretaries. The new committee has already assumed charge today in the presence of senior leaders of the party at the AGP HQs in Ambari here.

A section of leaders of the AGP, including PK Mahanta, Brindabon Goswami and Pabindra Deka, had attended a meeting organized by a section of leaders of the Guwahati City committee of the party on Tuesday when they asked the AGP leaders to make their stand clear on the CAA.

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