Bodoland Folks’s Entrance Invitations Tejashwi Yadav As Accord Day Leader Visitor

New Delhi:

The Bodoland Folks’s Entrance (BPF) has invited Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav to be the manager visitor for Bodoland Accord Day celebrations on February 10.

The BPF could have severed ties with Assam’s ruling BJP after the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) election in December, however it stays an best friend within the Meeting. The RJD, then again, is aligned firmly towards the BJP after the bitterly-contested election in Bihar in October-November ultimate 12 months.

The RJD, which has up to now flourished below Mr Yadav’s management – it received 75 seats in Bihar to emerge because the single-largest party – is making plans to contest between 25 and 30 seats in Assam, which votes for a brand new Meeting in April.

“Since BTC was once created on February 10, 2003, the day is widely known yearly as Bodoland Accord Day via BPF. This 12 months additionally BPF goes to rejoice… at Bishmuri in Kokrajhar district, with a meeting of lakhs. I want to request (that) you kindly grace the programme as Leader Visitor,” the BPF’s letter to Tejashwi Yadav, written via chief Hagrama Mohilary, mentioned.

Mohilary was once additionally some of the signatories of the accord.

An ex-member of the Bodoland Liberation Tigers (BLT), Mohilary and others laid down hands in 2003 to signal the accord that created the Bodoland Territorial House Districts.

“For the reason that advent of BTC, the BPF – a regional political party – dominated BTC until 2020. All the way through this era the BPF may, in an actual sense, create a relaxed environment.. convey the folks nearer to one another and paintings for sped up construction,” Mohilary wrote.

In January ultimate 12 months the centre signed every other accord – with the Nationwide Democratic Entrance of Bodoland, every other armed outfit within the area. Underneath this accord 1000’s laid down hands, and the centre agreed to reconstruct the Council and its limitations.

The BJP had ditched the BPF in 2015 – a 12 months sooner than the ultimate Meeting election – right through BTR elections, the place the BPF had dominated for 3 consecutive phrases since its inception and solid an alliance with United Folks’s Party (Liberal) and the Gana Suraksha Party to shape the council within the 4 BTR districts – Udalguri, Kokrajhar, Chirang and Baksa

“Fourth BTC basic election was once hung on December 10, 2020. On this election the BPF received 17 of 40 seats. On the other hand, in spite of profitable simplest 9 seats the BJP shaped the federal government forcefully via horse-trading…compelling UPPL (12 seats) and two others to sign up for them (and) disrespecting the mandate of the folks. The folk of Bodoland stand towards discriminatory, communal, and non secular fundamentalist organisations like BJP,” Mohilary wrote.

The BJP lately mentioned it might contest the Assam election with the UPPL as its best friend.