Overview

• The Bodoland People’s Front secured an absolute majority in the 40-seat Bodoland Territorial Council, taking 28 seats as UPPL won seven and the BJP five, with Congress failing to win any.
• The party’s policy-making body named Hagrama Mohilary as leader of the BTC Legislature Party and Rihon Daimary as deputy leader.
• BPF leaders said they will stake claim to form the council before the governor today, with the swearing-in scheduled for October 3.
• Immediate priorities include issuing land pattas to indigenous people, maintaining social harmony, creating a Rs 100-crore youth corpus, and establishing separate funds for women, the elderly, and specially-abled persons.
• BJP Assam congratulated the BPF and offered support to the incoming council, while the state Congress chief framed the result as a rejection of BJP governance.