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JORHAT: BJP ally Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) has decided to go it alone in the panchayat elections and may even fight Lok Sabha elections on its own. "The provisions of the bill are detrimental to the greater interest of the people of India," an AGP mem-orandum had said last mo-nth. We have to sever ties with them," AGP founder-president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta said. The amendment proposes citizenship for non-Muslim migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan The declaration comes just two days after BJP said it would retain its ties with all regional parties in Assam for the panchayat and Lok Sabha elections. "We do not want power at the cost of the interests of the indigenous people of Assam..