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Updated Apr 12, 2021 · 12:53 pm Bodoland People s Front chief Hagrama Mohilary. | Hagrama Mohilary/ Facebook
The Bodoland People’s Front, an ally of the Congress in Assam, has flown party members who contested the state Assembly polls to an undisclosed location amid fears that the Bharatiya Janata Party would try to buy their loyalties, the
Hindustan Times reported on Sunday.
“I am not sure where they [the candidates] are now,” said senior Bodoland People’s Front leader Pramila Rani Brahma, who contested from the Kokrajhar East seat. “But the candidates are outside Assam, that’s confirmed. I am not going anywhere.”
An unidentified leader said that 10 Bodoland People’s Front leaders were taken to Bhutan on April 10 and would likely stay there till May 2.
BPF candidates shifted from Assam to foil horse trading
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BPF leader and former Social Welfare Minister Pramila Rani Brahma.. Image Source: IANS News
Guwahati, April 12 : After the AIUDF shifted its candidates to Rajasthan, another ally of Congress-led Mahajot (grand alliance) in Assam, Bodoland People s Front (BPF), has temporarily took its candidates to a foreign country, party sources said here on Monday.
Veteran BPF leader and former Social Welfare Minister Pramila Rani Brahma, who is in Assam, said: All the 12 BPF candidates have been shifted to a neighbouring country. BPF President Hagrama Mohilary accompanied the candidates. However, I do not know which country they have gone to.
File photo of Badruddin Ajmal, chief of the All India United Democratic Front. | IANS
Around 20 candidates of the Opposition alliance in Assam were shifted to a hotel in Rajasthan’s Jaipur city on Friday amid fears that the Bharatiya Janata Party would buy their loyalties, PTI reported.
Congress and its prime ally, the All India United Democratic Front, contested the Assembly elections in Assam together. The “mohajut” – as the alliance is called – also includes Jimochayan (Deori) People’s Party, Adivasi National Party, Anchalik Gana Morcha, Bodoland People’s Party, Rashtriya Janata Dal and three Left parties.
The candidates of the alliance were brought to Jaipur by air and taken to a hotel on the Delhi highway on the outskirts of Jaipur. Most of those who were shifted are reportedly candidates of Badruddin Ajmal-led All India United Democratic Front.
Congress, AIUDF shift candidates to Rajasthan to foil ‘possible horse-trading’ in Assam
So far 22 candidates of the two parties have been sent to Jaipur
By IANS| Posted by Sameer | Updated: 10th April 2021 11:12 am IST File photo
Guwahati: To avoid “possible horse-trading by the BJP”, the Congress and its ally AIUDF on Friday sent at least 22 of their candidates in the just held Assembly polls to Congress-ruled Rajasthan in a chartered plane, party sources said.
The leaders of the Congress and the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) unofficially told the media that so far 22 candidates of the two parties have been sent to Jaipur and they are now lodged in a private hotel there. “More candidates of the Congress and the AIUDF would be dispatched in the coming days as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party might try for horse-trading after the declaration of the results (on May 2) to remain in power,” a Congress leader said in Guwahati on condition o