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Bodoland Election: BJP’s Smart Game Plan that Paid Dividends Ahead of 2021 Assembly Polls
Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal, NEDA convenor Himanta Biswa Sarma, UPPL President Pramod Boro, Assam BJP President Ranjit Das, Gana Suraksha Party leader Naba Sarania and others pose for a group photograph during a meeting regarding their alliance to form new BTC council, at CM residence in Guwahati, Sunday, Dec 13, 2020. (Image: PTI)
It appears the plan to oust the BPF from the Bodo council was drafted almost a year ago, when the ruling BJP hurriedly cleared the Bodo Accord.
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CM Sarbananda Sonowal in Kokrajhar on Tuesday
GUWAHATI: The seeds for the swearing-in of the fourth Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) of BJP-UPPL-GSP combine, led by Pramod Boro, were sown in the third peace accord signed in January with the Centre and the state government.
For ousted former BTC chief Hagrama Mohilary, who heads BPF, it was a repeat of history that he had written 17 years ago when he signed the previous Bodo accord in 2003 with the NDA government at the Centre and the Congress government is the state. Mohilary, a former militant leader after disbanding his Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT) formed BPF and took charge of BTC.
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After 17 years, Hagrama Mohilary will no longer be chief of the Bodoland Territorial Council. The autonomous council was created in 2003 after a peace accord between the government and a section of the Bodo groups fighting for a separate state. Mohilary, then the leader of the armed group, the Bodo Liberation Tigers, was the face of the accord. Since then, Mohilary and his Bodoland People’s Front, the party that grew out of the armed group, have kept a firm grip on the four districts of Assam covered by the territorial council.
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