TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty
TI  - ASSAM: The Accord, The Discord
SN  - 9780670091553
U1  - 324.254162 
PY  - 2019////01/01
CY  - Hariyana
PB  - Ebury Press
KW  - Asom Gana Parishad
KW  - Political Party
KW  - Assam
KW  - immigrants in Assam
KW  -  illegal immigrants from Bangladesh
KW  - Assam (India)
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Mahanta, Prafulla Kumar
KW  -   Assam (India) - History - 20th century
N1  - The Assam Accord, which sought to end a six-year-long agitation against illegal immigrants in Assam, was signed between members of the All Assam Students Union (AASU), and state and central governments just a few hours before Rajiv Gandhi was to deliver the Independence Day address in 1985. Immediately afterwards, the student leaders were catapulted from their hostel rooms into the corridors of power. Their party, the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), was voted to power the same year, with Prafulla Kumar Mahanta becoming the youngest ever chief minister of an Indian state
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