Assam polls: BPF game for alliance with anti-BJP forces

The Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) has stated it’s game for an alliance with anti-BJP forces, offered they hold out of the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) comprising 4 districts of the poll-bound Assam.

BPF chief Hagrama Mohilary stated his get together was able to go for strategic tie-ups with the Congress-led grand alliance and a entrance of recent regional events in the event that they agreed to the BPF contesting 12 Assembly seats throughout the BTR.

“If they help is in these 12 constituencies, we will help them in 28 seats beyond the BTR where we have a considerable support base,” Mr. Mohilary stated after a gathering of his get together’s central working committee in Udalguri on February 25.

He added that his get together’s 12-member core group would resolve on which events the BPF would ally with. “We are discussing with the Assam Jatiya Parishad, the Raijor Dal and other like-minded parties and the outcome will be revealed soon,” he stated.

The BPF’s doorways had been open to all events besides the BJP and its allies, the Asom Gana Parishad and the United People’s Party Liberal, he asserted.

Parting of how

The BJP and the BPF parted methods earlier than the elections to the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), which Mr. Mohilary headed for 17 years, in December 2020. The BPF, nevertheless, has three Ministers in Sarbananda Sonowal’s BJP-led alliance authorities.

The BPF was an ally of the Congress for two phrases earlier than shifting loyalty to the BJP forward of the 2016 Assembly polls. But the connection between the BJP and the BPF started souring greater than a 12 months in the past.

Just a few BPF leaders, together with Rajya Sabha member Biswajit Daimary, joined the BJP over the previous few months. But the BPF managed to emerge as the only largest get together within the final BTC polls.

“We do have Ministers in the BJP-led government, but we are waiting for them to throw them out,” Mr. Mohilary stated.