BJP all set to ally with UPF for 2016 Assam Assembly polls , 2016 Assam Assembly polls, Assam Assembly election 2016, Bodoland People's Front, United People’s Front,Assam Polls, AIUDF , AGP,Narendra Modi
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BJP all set to ally with UPF for 2016 Assam Assembly polls , 2016 Assam Assembly polls, Assam Assembly election 2016, Bodoland People's Front, United People’s Front,Assam Polls, AIUDF , AGP,Narendra Modi
The Bharatiya Janata Party is all set to announce its first alliance for the 2016 Assam Assembly polls during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the state on January 19.
The formalities for a tie-up between the BJP and United People’s Front (UPF), a forum of nine tribal and indigenous organisations that will contest 30 seats in the 2016 Assembly polls, are now being worked on.
The first step towards this direction was a meeting on December 5 between Modi and Hagrama Mohilary, the chief of Bodoland People's Front (BPF), the prime force behind the tribal forum.
In fact, the 2016 Assam Assembly polls will be a story of old friends joining forces against each other.
Himanta Biswa Sarma, the one-time trusted lieutenant of Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, joined the BJP in August, and has emerged as the prime challenger to the 14-year-long Congress rule in the state. It was Sarma who took Mohilary to meet the prime minister.