Jayashree expelled from AGP

GUWAHATI, March 31 — The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) today expelled former Rajya Sabha member Jayashree Goswami Mahanta from the party for filing her nomination as an independent candidate from the Dhubri Lok Sabha constituency. AGP spokesman Jagadish Bhuyan said that the party president Brindaban Goswami took the decision to expel Goswami Mahanta, wife of former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, from the party following discussions with other senior leaders of the party. He said that Goswami Mahanta went against the interest of the party by filing nomination against the AGP candidate Afzalur Rahman in Dhubri constituency. He said that one of the legislators suspended by the party for violating the party whip in the recently held Rajya Sabha polls, also helped Goswami Mahanta in filing her nomination against the official candidate of the party. It may be mentioned here that Goswami Mahanta was elected to the Rajya Sabha when her husband was the Chief Minister. She was the president of the Nagaon district committee of the Mahila Parishad, a sister organisation of the AGP till today.