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AGP rolls out vision 16

By AT News |

The Asom Gana Parishad on Sunday rolled out Vision 16 sounding poll bugle for the assembly polls early next year. 

In a huge rally at Amguri, party president Atul Bora said that the Congress era was over. Bora said corruption will send all ministers to jail one by one. 

Speakers in the rally said that a section of the party has joined BJP but it wont hurt the party's poll prospect.

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