Chandra Mohan Patowary, the president of Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), Assam’s main opposition political party, has appealed to politicians to avoid slanderous personal attacks and inflammatory speeches while campaigning for the parliamentary elections in April 2009.
The war of words has turned bitter between the two main rivals - the Congress and the AGP-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alliance - ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. It started with the Congress accusing the AGP of being a party of ‘prostitutes’ after they stitched a pre-poll pact with the BJP. Patowary countered the charges at a press conference by calling Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi a ’servant’ of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.
“Things are already getting dirty with Congress leaders starting a vilification campaign, prompting us to counter such charges with equally harsh words. People of Assam really don’t like such war of words and don’t expect us to behave in such manner,” the AGP president told IANS.
‘I didn’t want to term the chief minister a servant, but as leader of the AGP I had to defend my party and hence used such a bad word. Let the Congress party apologise and after that I am ready to say sorry for using the word servant,” Patowary said.
The AGP leader also challenged the Congress party to prove charges that the tie-up with the BJP was made possible after monetary transactions. Patowary also said in confidence that the AGP-BJP combine would be able to beat the Congress in Assam, as the people of Assam are sick and tired of the Congress.
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