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AGP says sorry for ‘mistakes’, not to repeat follies |
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The Asom Gana Parishad has tendered an apology for “misdeeds” during its two stints in office, apprehending that the ghost of its past might catch up with it prior to the Assembly elections and upset its applecart.
Pleading with the electorate to “let bygones be bygones,” AGP leaders vowed that the regional party would not repeat the mistakes which had been committed due to “inexperience”.
Speaking at a function to welcome former All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) president Prabin Boro into the party fold, AGP general secretary Chandramohan Patowary said: “We had committed some mistakes in the past. You have to understand that the AGP is a party just 20 years old.... it is like a teenager who stepped into adulthood. But I am assuring you that we have learnt from our past and are committed not to repeat the mistakes”.
The former Agriculture Minister said the party had brought in changes to ensure that the mistakes were not repeated. His statement was an oblique reference to the expulsion of former party president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta. “We did not subscribe to steps like harassment meted out to a few scribes during our regime. But we could not raise our voice in public because of party discipline. But the party has now got rid of those responsible for such episodes.”
The AGP had lost power in the last Assembly elections following strong public resentment over the charges of killing several suspected ULFA sympathisers and relatives of the outfit’s leaders in mysterious circumstances, infamously termed as the “secret killings”.
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