Assam BPF
BPF chief Hagrama Mohilary (File image)

The Bodoland Peopleโ€™s Front (BPF) has decided to pull out of the Congress-led grand alliance in Assam.

BPF general secretary Prabin Boro on Monday said that the party said decided to snap ties with the Mahajot (grand alliance).

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โ€œNow, we have no association with the grand alliance. We joined hands with the grand alliance ahead of the Assam Assembly elections. The alliance was purely election-centric,โ€ Boro told reporters.

The BPFโ€™s decision comes less than two months after the Congress-led Grand Alliance faced defeat in the Assam Assembly polls.

Earlier on Saturday, the BPF skipped a joint press conference called by the Grand Alliance in Guwahati.

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BPF was a part of the last BJP-led state government-led alliance prior to the 2016 polls.

However, it had parted ways with the ruling alliance towards the end of last year and had joined the Congress-headed grand alliance ahead of the polls, held in March-April this year.

The BPF, a major power in the Bodo belt, had been a part of the Tarun Gogoi-led governments in the state in 2006 and 2011.

The party, which had won 12 seats in 2016 state polls, managed to bag only four in this yearโ€™s election.

This is the first time that the BPF, founded in 2005, is not a part of the ruling coalition in the state.