Interestingly, while the four-party alliance failed to secure any of the fourteen seats in the 1998 elections, the AGP's other three partners are asking for a total of as many as ten seats among themselves. While the CPI(M) has asked for two seats. The CPI and the United People's Party of Assam (UPPA) have raised their demands to four seats each.

``We will come to an adjustment within the next couple of weeks,'' said AGP spokesman and former union minister Birendra Prasad Baishya, indicating that all the three other parties might, in the end, settle down for a seat each.

In last year's Lok Sabha elections, the four-party alliance could secure only 16.93 per cent of the votes cast, against 43.47 per centof the Congress and its ally, the United Minorities Front (UMF). The BJP on its part had polled 24.23 per cent of the votes winning just one seat.

The AGP is likely to nominate several new faces, which includes the likes of former AASU president Sarbananda Sonowal and former general secretary Samujjal Bhattacharyya. While Sonowal is tipped for the Lakhimpur seat, the other ex-AASU leader is likely to get the Guwahati ticket.

The party is also likely to bring back former union minister of state and three-times MP Muhiram Saikia in the prestigious Nagaon seat, where Chief Minister Mahanta's wife Jayashree had fought unsuccessfully in 1998.