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GUWAHATI
The Bodoland People’s Front (BPF), a erstwhile state of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is poised to look arsenic the single-largest enactment successful Assam’s Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) elections.
The enactment was starring successful 21 of the autonomous council’s 40 seats, much than 12 hours aft the counting of votes began astatine 8 a.m. connected Friday (September 26, 2025). The results are expected by Saturday (September 27, 2025) morning, officials of the State Election Commission said.
The ruling United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL) was starring successful 11 and its ally-turned-rival BJP successful 8 seats, astir arsenic galore seats arsenic they won successful the 2020 BTC polls.
The elections to the BTC, presently ruled by the UPPL, BJP, and the determination Gana Suraksha Party, were held connected September 22. The assembly governs the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR), comprising 5 districts – Baksa, Chirang, Kokrajhar, Tamulpur, and Udalguri.
The BPF, led by erstwhile extremist Hagrama Mohilary, ruled the BTC for 17 years until 2020. A semipermanent state of the Congress party, it switched allegiance to the BJP up of the 2016 Assam Assembly elections.
Coalition math
The BPF severed ties with the BJP and temporarily joined a Congress-led expansive confederation during the 2021 State polls. Thereafter, it warmed up to the BJP but steered wide of a ceremonial alliance.
The BJP seeks to unafraid a elemental bulk with astatine slightest 21 seats successful the council. If the verdict is fractured, the BJP mightiness state with either the BPF oregon the UPPL.
During the run-up to the BTC polls, the BJP stated that it believed successful maintaining cordial ties with some the determination parties. The saffron enactment kept its options unfastened by not going for a pre-poll confederation with the Pramod Boro-led UPPL, dissimilar successful 2020.
In 2020, the BPF emerged arsenic the single-largest enactment with 17 seats, but the UPPL with 12 seats and the BJP with 9 cobbled up the numbers with smaller parties to signifier the authorities successful the BTR.
The BTC elections are seen arsenic the “semifinal” of the 2026 Assembly polls successful Assam.
Approximately 78.42% of the 26.58 lakh voters formed their votes to determine the destiny of 316 candidates. EOM
