GUWAHATI: Day after joining hands with Congress-led grand alliance in Assam, Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) President Hagrama Mohilary said that they would form the government with 70 seats.
Mohilary claimed that the alliance comprising of Congress, All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) and others would get absolute majority in the upcoming assembly elections.
“We will definitely form the government. We have to oust the BJP from Assam. Sixty-four seats are required to form the government. We will get 70,” Mohilary said while addressing a presser in Guwahati on Sunday.
The BPF Chief on Saturday announced his party’s decision to sever all its ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
“To work for Peace, Unity and Development the Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) has decided to join hands with MAHAJATH in the forthcoming Assam Assembly Election. We shall no longer maintain friendship or alliance with BJP,” he tweeted.
To work for Peace, Unity and Development the Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) has decided to join hands with MAHAJATH in the forthcoming Assam Assembly Election. We shall no longer maintain friendship or alliance with BJP.
— Hagrama Mohilary (@HagramaOnline) February 27, 2021
In 2016, the BJP scripted history and formed the government for the first time in the state ending Congress’s 15-year rule. BJP and its allies Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) won a combined 86 seats in the 126-member Assam Assembly. BJP bagged 60 seats, AGP 14 and BPF 12 seats.
Congress, which ran the state for three straight terms under the leadership of Tarun Gogoi, could manage to win only 26 seats.
But the two allies—BJP and BPF contested recently held Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) elections separately.
Later, BJP stitched an alliance with Pramod Boro-led United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL).
BJP, UPPL and Gana Shakti Party (GSP) had formed the new BTC and in the recent BTC elections BJP won 9 seats, BPF bagged 17 seats, United Peoples’ Party Liberal (UPPL) won 12 seats and one each was won by Congress and Gana Shakti Party (GSP) led by Kokrajhar MP Naba Kumar Sarania.
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