Hagrama Mohilary s BPF, broke from the BJP and joined the Congress in February.
New Delhi:
Assam s Bodoland People s Front s petition (BPF) to postpone polling in Tamulpur - days after its candidate Rangja Khungur Basumatary defected to the BJP - was today turned down by the Supreme Court.
Tamulpur will vote tomorrow as the state holds the third and final phase of assembly elections. The BPF is part of the Congress-led alliance -
Mahajoth .
Chief Justice SA Bobde this morning told the petitioner: How can court interfere in the middle of elections? We will show you the door of Assam High Court.
Congress Assam Ally Moves Supreme Court To Postpone Tamulpur Polling BPF chief Hagrama Mohilary has also written to the Election Commission, and asked for permission to change his party s candidate for the Tamulpur seat
Updated: April 04, 2021 3:41 pm IST
Assam Election: Hagrama Mohilary s BPF, broke from the BJP and joined the Congress in February (File)
New Delhi/Guwahati:
Assam s Bodoland People s Front (BPF) moved the Supreme Court on Sunday seeking postponement of polling in Tamulpur, after its candidate - Rangja Khungur Basumatary - defected to the BJP less than a week before voting and after the deadline for withdrawal of nominations.
Congress Demands Suspension of Polls in Tamulpur Constituency after BPF candidate joins BJP
Tamulpur Assembly constituency will go to polls on April 6 in the three-phased Assam Assembly elections, 2021.
| 4 April 2021 9:12 AM GMT
GUWAHATI: In a recent political development, the Congress party has demanded the suspension of polls in the Tamulpur constituency, after its ally Bodoland People s Front (BPF) candidate from the seat- Rangja Khungur Basumatary joined the BJP in the middle of the ongoing polls.
As per reports, Rangja Khungur Basumatary alias Ram Das Basumatary met Assam Cabinet minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, on Wednesday evening following which he tweeted that Basumatary express(ed) his desire to join BJP and retire from the election .
A candidate of the Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) on Thursday joined the ruling BJP ahead of the third phase of polls in Assam.
The Congress has decided to challenge the defection before the Election Commission while the BPF has decided to back an Independent candidate.
BPF’s Rangja Khungur Basumatary, a contractor who was contesting the third phase of polls from Tamulpur constituency in Baksa district on April 6, joined the BJP in presence of Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar and “appealed” to voters to support the United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL) candidate Leho Ram Bodo.
The UPPL is part of the BJP-led alliance in the Assembly polls, which is getting tighter by the day as both the Congress and BJP-led alliances are going all out to woo voters.
G23 leader Manish Tewari reaches out to Congress leaders in Assam
Kangkan Kalita | TNN | Updated: Apr 1, 2021, 23:39 IST
GUWAHATI: Congress’s ‘dissident’ top brass sent a unity message on the second phase polling day in Assam on Thursday. G23 leader and MP Manish Tewari reaching out to senior Congress leaders to give a final push to the party campaign for the all-important last phase election slated for April 6.
Though Congress veterans and G23 leaders, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Kapil Sibal and Manish Tewari, were not listed as Congress star campaigners for the Assam election, Tewari arrived at the state Congress headquarters here to lend more muscle to the grand alliance campaign. The mahajot is expecting its best performance in the third phase, where they are especially banking upon Muslim-inhabited constituencies to ride the crest of anti-BJP sentiments revolving around ‘Hindutva politics’.