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Post BTC Polls: Gauhati High Court orders floor test for Promod Boro-led BTC; Majority floor test by Dec 26
In the order that could spell more trouble for UPPL chief Promod Boro, stay has been clamped on the appointment of the nominated members. They will not be able to participate in the election of the Chief Executive Member
| 22 Dec 2020 1:02 PM GMT
Guwahati: The ordeal is far from over for Promod Boro-led Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC). The Gauhati High Court on Tuesday has ordered for a composite floor test by December 26, which means Promod Boro will have to prove his majority. Making things worse for Boro, the order has put a stay on the appointment of the nominated members, they will not be able to vote during the floor test and cannot participate in the election of the Chief Executive Member. The Court has barred the Council from taking any policy decision.
G Plus News | December 21, 2020 17:47
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GUWAHATI: Political parties in Bodoland are adopting all possible options to keep their flock together. With United People s Party Liberal (UPPL), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Gana Surakhya Party (GSP) trying to save their members from `horse trading, they have now been lodged at Assam House in Shillong.
Meanwhile, Bodoland People s Front (BPF) has gone a step further by transporting all its winning members to Phuentsholing in Bhutan.
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uentsholing is a border town in southern Bhutan and is located 138 kms from Kokrajhar, the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) headquarters.
Absence of anti-defection law in sixth schedule areas has now added to the crisis of government formation in the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC).
GUWAHATI: A day after the Gauhati High Court ordered “status quo” on the formation of the new executive council of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) after hearing a challenge petition filed by former chief executive member (CEM) and BPF leader Hagrama Mohilary, the party on Saturday announced that it has decided to sit in the opposition.
The court will be hearing the matter again on December 22, but BPF general secretary, Prabin Boro, said, “BPF has decided that it will sit in the opposition and will take part in the council as an active opposition in the greater interest of the people of Bodoland Territorial Region.”
Assam’s BTC ordered to put governance on hold
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December 19, 2020 18:11 IST
The Gauhati High Court had heard a petition by Bodoland People’s Front challenging the appointment of the council’s chief and a few others
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The Gauhati High Court had heard a petition by Bodoland People’s Front challenging the appointment of the council’s chief and a few others
The Gauhati High Court has asked the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) to put its governance on hold three days after a three-party alliance forged by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had taken charge.
The order by the single-judge Bench of Justice Suman Shyam was based on a petition by leaders of the Bodoland People’s Front (BPF), which had emerged as the single largest party in the BTC elections held on December 7 and December 10.
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GUWAHATI: Just days after a BJP-led coalition had grabbed power in Assam’s autonomous Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), the Gauhati High Court issued an order asking the council to maintain “status quo” on its administrative works.
The order, passed by the single-judge bench of Justice Suman Shyam on Friday, comes at a time when the newly-elected council members are yet to begin discharging duties. The next hearing on the case has been fixed for December 22.
Earlier, former BTC chief, Hagrama Mohilary, who is also the president of Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) and some of his party colleagues had filed a writ petition in the court challenging the constitutional validity of the appointment of the council’s Chief Executive Member (CEM) and other members.