Guwahati, Sept. 6 -- The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), a constituent of the BJP-led government in Assam, on Saturday said it will approach the Supreme Court to exempt the northeastern state from the Centre's recent directive on immigrant foreigners.

The party asserted as quoted by news agency PTI "it was in opposition to any step that goes against the spirit of the Assam Accord, including the recent order."

The Assam Accord was signed on August 15, 1985 after a tumultuous six-year-long anti-foreigner movement.

The AGP was born as an offshoot of the agitation.

"We have decided to file a writ petition before the Supreme Court, asking for exemption of Assam from the order," AGP vice-president and former MP Kumar Deepak Das told the media.

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