Assam polls: Durga Das Boro to contest on BPF ticket; party names Udalguri candidates

GUWAHATI: The Bodoland People's Front (BPF) has just released a list of candidates who will be contesting the Assam Assam elections from the Udalguri district.

Notably, Durga Das Boro, formerly of the Congress party, shall be contesting the polls on a BPF ticket. Das Boro shall be contesting from Kalaigaon.

Maheshwar Bodo — the sitting MLA — was earlier expected to receive a party ticket. However, party insiders have revealed that prominent Congress leader Durga Das Boro wants to contest from the Seat. BPF supremo Hagrama Mohilary, however, said that he must contest on a BPF ticket.

It needs mention here that the BPF party has stitched a pre-poll alliance with the Congress in a bid to oust the saffron BJP from power.

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Apart from Das Boro, the other candidates in the list are pretty much the 'probables' whose names were being floated earlier.

While Minister Rihon Daimary shall be contesting from the Udalguri (ST) Constituency, Charan Boro will be contesting from Mazbat, and Karuna Kanta Swargiary shall be contesting from the Paneri Constituency.

The Hagrama Mohilary-led Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) is fielding candidates who have already proven their mettle as it heads to the polls with a clear intent to ‘defeat’ former allies ‘Bharatiya Janata Party’ that ditched its ally ahead of the Council elections before going on to form a coalition government with the UPPL and GSP parties.