Jiten Gogoi's Open Challenge to Atul Bora
Jiten Gogoi, the present MLA of 93 Bokakhat Assembly Constituency has threatened to attack physically Atul Bora, General Secretary of AGP and AGP's intending candidate for the coming assembly election,at any point of time. The threatening is issued publicly at a television channel on December 18. This was telecast in the evening news on the channel. Gogoi has even declared that his organization “Bokakhat Nirman Got” has already taken decision in a meetings to attack Atul Bora physically and also in a public meeting with the help of his partymen. Talking to Assam Times, Atul Bora said that he has doubt about the sanity of MLA Gogoi and he will lodge an FIR in the Bokakhat Police Station.
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