BTC Election: ABSU extends support to UPPL, demands strict security during polls

Kokrajhar: The All Bodo Students Union (ABSU) has demanded strong security deployment during the elections in the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) to ensure "free and fair" council elections. The BTC election is likely to be held before December 15.

Addressing scribes today at a press conference held at Bodofa House in Kokrajhar, ABSU president Dipen Boro said that ABSU wants "proper implementation" of all clauses of the BTR accord to "pave way for healthy development and welfare" in the 4 Bodo-dominated districts of Assam.

He informed that till date six numbers of clauses of the BTR accord are implemented from the strong initiative of governments.

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Bodo also lashed out at the ruling BPF party for claiming that the UPPL and the ABSU are one and the same. ABSU president Boro has announced that the students union is extending direct support to the UPPL party.

He said that ABSU is a nonpolitical organization and it would continue its activities in days to come to promote "social integration."

Boro also expressed his dismay over the atrocities against ABSU offices at different districts ahead of the BTC election, and urged state government and other concerned authorities to take stern step against the atrocities.

Taking potshots at the BPF, he said, "False propaganda and rumour on BTR accord, land rights to non-tribals and against ABSU to divert common peoples' mind from rampant corruption, dictatorial rule and 

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