Ahead of elections, top BPF leaders join BJP in Assam

Guwahati, Nov 22 : Ahead of the next year’s assembly polls, with a shot in the arm for BJP, two top leaders of Bodoland Peoples Front (BPF), an ally of the ruling saffron party in Assam, including founding leader and Rajya Sabha MP Biswajit Daimary, on Sunday joined the leading partner.
Along with Daimary, who has resigned from the Rajya Sabha on Saturday, BPF’s AGeneral Secretary and MLA Emmanuel Mosahary joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in presence of Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, state BJP President Ranjit Kumar Dass and national General Secretary Dilip Saikia in Guwahati.
Sonowal welcomed both the tribal leaders to BJP and hoped that their joining would benefit the party.
The tribal dominated party BPF since 2016 is the ruling partner of the BJP in the state and also a member of the saffron party led North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA).
However, both the BJP and BPF are fighting against each other in the Bodoland Territorial Council’s crucial polls to be held on December 7 and 10.
“I have quit the BPF earlier on November 11 and from Sunday I would work for the people from the BJP platform,” Daimary told IANS over phone.