Guwahati, May 3: The All Assam Students Union (AASU) has said it will not let its differences with Dispur on the migrants? act interfere with the implementation of the Assam Accord.

The AASU said its differences with Dispur on the scrapping of the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunal) Act would not be a hindrance to the tripartite talks involving the Centre, the state government and itself, convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on May 5.

AASU adviser Samujjal Bhattacharyya told a news conference that the party?s differences with Dispur on the IMDT Act would remain, but the students? union would not allow it to scuttle any progress on the implementation of other clauses of the accord.

The AASU and the state government were stuck on their respective stands on the contentious issue at a meeting held yesterday to prepare a blueprint for the tripartite talks with the Prime Minister. While the Congress government wants the act to stay, the AASU wants it scrapped.

?There is no question of any deviation from our stand on the need to revoke the act. But despite the differences, there can be progress on the implementation of other clauses,? the AASU adviser said.

The AASU said the onus was now on the Prime Minister and the chief minister to ensure that the talks yield some tangible results. He threatened to launch a vigorous agitation if the talks failed.

?We will launch a mass agitation if this time the government fails to implement the accord in toto within a reasonable time-frame,? the AASU leader said. He, however, said it was for the government to set a deadline for the implementation of the accord.

A five-member AASU delegation will leave for New Delhi tomorrow. The delegation will comprise Bhattacharyya, AASU president Shankar Prasad Roy, general secretary Tapan Kumar Gogoi, former president Prabin Boro and ideologue Basanta Deka.

Dispur had yesterday agreed to fix a time-frame for the implementation of the accord, 20 years after it was signed. The pact was signed in 1985 after an eight-year anti-foreigner agitation in the state.

The AASU general secretary had yesterday said another meeting would be held with the chief minister before the tripartite talks. The talks assume significance as it had been a long-pending demand of the AASU.

The students? union had been insisting that since both the home ministry and the state government had failed to implement the accord, it would hold discussions only at the highest level.

The state government had agreed to arrange the meeting with the Prime Minister after the AASU had threatened to boycott Manmohan Singh?s visit to the state in November last year.