Bodoland People's Front

The Bodoland People's Front (BPF) is a state political party in Assam, India. The party is headquartered in Kokrajhar Town and was previously part of the ruling government in the autonomous region of Bodoland.^[5] The BPF and UPPL are the two main regional parties of Assam from Bodoland.

Bodoland People's Front
Abbreviation	BPF
Chairman	Hagrama Mohilary
Founded	5 December 2005 (19 years ago) (2005-12-05)
Headquarters	Kokrajhar, Assam
Ideology	Secularism[1] Democratic socialism[2]
ECI Status	State Party[3]
Alliance	NDA (2016-2021), (2022-2023)[4] (Assam) UPA (2011-2016),(2021-2021)
Seats in Lok Sabha	0 / 543
Seats in Rajya Sabha	0 / 245
Seats in Assam Legislative Assembly	3 / 126
Seats in Bodoland Territorial Council	17 / 40
Election symbol
Party flag
Website
www.bpfassam.in
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History

The BPF was formed as political party in year 2005,^[6] Hagrama Mohilary and Emmanuel Mosahary were selected as the President and the General Secretary of the new party. Hagrama Mohilary formed the first Elected Executive Bodoland Territorial Council after the end of the election.^[7][8]

Bodoland Peoples Front formed as per the resolution Vide No. 3, adopted in the Political convention held on 4th and 5th December 2005, as per BPF constitution,^[9] BPF shall bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution of India as established by law and to the principles of democracy, socialism and secularism as enshrined in the Indian Constitution, and also solemnly affirm our commitment to work for upholding the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India.^[10][9] To work for strengthening the Indian Nationalism providing due respect to the identities of all sections of people.^[11]

The party began its journey in the 2011 Assam Legislative election where the party stormed and surprised everyone by winning 12 seats. The party also became the 3rd largest party behind INC and AIUDF, despite the fact that the party had only contested 29 seats. Ahead of the 2016 Assam legislative election the party joined the National Democratic Alliance. The party was assigned 16 seats as per the agreement and won the same 12 seats. Despite just winning 12 seats, the party had the best winning percentage and was part of the government in Assam. Then in 2021 the party left National Democratic Alliance and joined the United Progressive Alliance ahead of the 2021 Assam election. The party was assigned 12 seats and ended up winning only 4 seats. Later the party decided to formally announce its departure from United Progressive Alliance, due to poor performance in the election.

Electoral performance

Assam Legislative Assembly Elections

Year	Party leader	Seats contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Percentage of votes	Vote swing	Popular vote	Result
2021	Hagrama Mohilary	12	4	8	3.39%		651,073	Opposition, Later others
2016		16	12		3.94%		666,057	Government
2011		29	12	12	6.13%		847,520	Outside Support for Government

Elected Representatives

Members of Parliament

Houses	No.	Year	Name	Constituency	Margin
Lok Sabha	1	2009	Sansuma Khunggur Bwiswmuthiary	Kokrajhar	1,90,352
Rajya Sabha	2	2008	Biswajit Daimary	Assam
		2014
		2020

List of Ministers

Year	Name	Constituency	Ministry
2006	Chandan Brahma	Sidli	Second Tarun Gogoi ministry
2011			Third Tarun Gogoi ministry
2016			Sonowal ministry
	Pramila Rani Brahma	Kokrajhar East	Sonowal ministry
	Rihon Daimary	Udalguri

Development in BTC

Educational Institutions

• Bodoland University, Kokrajhar
• Central Institute of Technology, Kokrajhar
• Bineswar Brahma Engineering College, Kokrajhar
• Medical College, Besorgaon, Kokrajhar
• Nursing College, Kokrajhar

BTC chief Hagrama Mohilary laid the foundation stone of Udalguri Engineering College.^[12]

Mohilary also laid the foundation stone of a Rs 26-crore IT park at Onthai Gwlao, Chandamari, nearly 4 km northwest of Kokrajhar town.^[13]

See also

• Bodo Liberation Tigers Force
• Bodo People's Progressive Front
• List of political parties in India
• Sanmilita Gana Shakti