Will Hagrama Mohilary’s popularity thwart the BJP’s political calculations in Bodoland?
The saffron party has tied up with the Bodo-centric United People’s Party to win the community’s support – but it may have met its match in the former militant. BPF chief Hagrama Mohilary addressing a public meeting in 2020. | Facebook
On a recent Sunday afternoon, the women committee of Badulipara, a village of ninety-three Bodo families in western Assam’s Chirang district, convened to elect its new office bearers (and eat a fish-and-rice lunch). The venue was a football field on the edge of which stood a “library” with no books.