There will be no alliance between the BJP and the Popular Front of Bodo for the 2024 elections: Himanta
Guwahati: The minister principal of Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma, said that the state’s ruling BJP will not form an alliance with the Bodo Popular Front (BPF) for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
On Thursday, a day after holding a meeting with BJP allies, Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the Parti Popular Unido Liberal (UPPL), the Minister Principal told journalists: “Aunque (BPF chief) Hagrama Mohilary. We supported in the Rajya Sabha surveys, the BPF is not included in our alliance”.
In the 2021 State Assembly elections, the BJP had allied with the UPPL in Bodoland to fight against the elections, which provoked Mohilary to abandon the alliance with the Congress.
In the last days, he held meetings with some key members of the RSS and raised speculations that he could join the BJP.
The BJP President of Assam, Bhabesh Kalita, had also insinuated that the BPF could find a place in the NDA led by the BJP.
In the past, Mohilary and Sarma had shared a good equation, with the latter being the key person when the BPF for the first time forged an alliance with the Congress in the period before the 2006 Assembly elections.
However, the equation later changed and both of them were seen involved in verbal duels.
Sarma even claimed that Mohilary was involved in large-scale corruption in the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) and, as a result, could face a prison sentence.
The Minister Principal also incorporated the BJP into the UPPL of Mohilary’s archrival, Pramod Bodo.
