HT Bureau
GUWAHATI, March 11: The Bodoland People’s Front (BPF), once a Congress ally in Assam, is prepared to contest the Lok Sabha elections on their own.
Hagrama Mohilary, the chief of the BPF, said on Monday, “Our party will field candidates in two Lok Sabha seats—Kokrajhar and Darang. Neither Congress nor any other party are our allies. We will contest polls independently.”
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He claimed that the BPF is in a strong position and that the party will win both of these seats.
“BPF will win the Darang seat with at least 1 lakh votes. I can promise everyone that the Kokrajhar Lok Sabha constituency would have an even larger winning margin,” asserted Mohilary.
Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has often asserted that the BJP will secure at least 11 Lok Sabha seats in the state. In Bodoland, the saffron party and the United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL) have formed an alliance.
Mohilary responded to Sarma’s statement by stating, “Assam has 14 Lok Sabha seats. The BJP can win the remaining 12 seats, with the exception of two.”
Additionally, he stated that UPPL would struggle to compete against BPF in the Lok Sabha elections.
Notably, during the last state assembly election, the BPF was a member of the grand coalition headed by the Congress. But the BPF distanced itself from the Opposition group when the alliance failed to remove the BJP from office.
