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GUWAHATI
A squad of the Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) met Assam Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya connected Sunday (September 28, 2025) and staked a assertion to signifier the adjacent Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) government.
The squad led by BPF president Hagrama Mohilary invited the Governor to the swearing-in ceremonial connected October 3.
“The Governor’s beingness volition adhd worth to the lawsuit arsenic October 3 is his birthday. If helium visits (Kokrajhar, the BTC office 220 km westbound of Guwahati), we volition observe his day together,” Mr. Mohilary said aft emerging from the Raj Bhavan.
The BPF had invited Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to the oath-taking ceremonial and was trying to invitation a fewer Cabinet Ministers, helium said.
Mr. Mohilary appreciated the “positive statements” from the Chief Minister and his United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL) counterpart, Pramod Boro, who submitted his resignation arsenic the Chief Executive Member of the BTC to the Governor connected Sunday (September 28, 2025).
“We are consenting to enactment successful coordination with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the UPPL, and different governmental parties. Our precedence volition beryllium to guarantee the advancement of the BTC and its people,” Mr. Mohilary said.
Among the contiguous plans of the caller BTC authorities is simply a memorial parkland and a statue of taste icon Zubeen Garg successful Kokrajhar, helium said.
The BPF, which severed its ties with the BJP earlier the 2020 BTC elections, defied the likelihood to triumph 28 of the 40 seats crossed 5 districts — Baksa, Chirang, Kokrajhar, Tamulpur, and Udalguri — that the BTC administers.
The UPPL, which ruled the BTC successful confederation with the BJP and the determination Gana Suraksha Party, managed to triumph 7 seats, portion the BJP bagged five. The tally was astir fractional the fig of seats the 2 parties had won 5 years ago.
Earlier, aft resigning arsenic the BTC chief, Mr. Boro thanked the radical of the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) for letting his enactment govern for 5 years. “Our absorption has ever been connected bid successful the BTC, and it volition proceed to beryllium so. We are assessing our loss, and volition instrumentality corrective measures,” helium said, adding that his enactment would enactment the caller government.
