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GUWAHATI: Seventeen years since it was created as a political solution to the Bodo agitation for a separate state, Assam s Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) on Tuesday got a new chief in former student leader Pramod Bodo.
He was sworn in as the Chief Executive Member (CEM) of the autonomous council at a programme held in Kokrajhar. Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma were among dignitaries in attendance.
Gobinda Basumatary of the United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL) took oath as the Deputy CEM. He is a former leader of a faction of the insurgent group National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB).
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Last Updated: Dec 15, 2020, 02:42 PM IST
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Besides Bodo, the others sworn in included Deputy CEM Gobindo Chandra Basumatry of the United Peoples Party Liberal (UPPL), BJP s Gautam Das and Diganta Barua and Gana Suraksha Party s (GSP) Ghanashyam Das.
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Senior BJP leader and NEDA convener Himanta Biswa Sarma attends a public meeting ahead of the 2nd Phase of Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) polls 2020 in Kokrajhar District.
Kokrajhar: The fourth Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) was constituted on Tuesday with the swearing in of five members of the BJP-UPPL-GSP combine and UPPL s Promod Bodo assuming charge as the Chief Executive Member (CEM) of the autonomous body. The members were administered the oath of office by Assam Chief Secretary Jishnu Barua at the Green Field Ground in Bodofa Nwgar here.
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Members of the United People s Party Liberal celebrate after the Bodoland elections. | PTI
After 17 years, Hagrama Mohilary will no longer be chief of the Bodoland Territorial Council. The autonomous council was created in 2003 after a peace accord between the government and a section of the Bodo groups fighting for a separate state. Mohilary, then the leader of the armed group, the Bodo Liberation Tigers, was the face of the accord. Since then, Mohilary and his Bodoland People’s Front, the party that grew out of the armed group, have kept a firm grip on the four districts of Assam covered by the territorial council.
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Guwahati: The results of the 40-member Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) poll have led to a hung House with the ruling Bodo Peoples Front (BPF) emerging as the single largest party winning 17 seats, election officials said on Sunday.
The United Peoples Party Liberal (UPPL) won 12 seats, the BJP nine, while the Congress and the Gana Suraksha Party (GSP) bagged one seat each.