The Bodoland People's Front (BPF) is a state

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...

in Assam, India. The party is headquartered in Kokrajhar Town and previously was in ruling government in the autonomous region of

Bodoland The Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) is an Autonomous administrative divisions of India, autonomous division in Assam, India, and a Proposed states and union territories of India#Assam, proposed state in Northeast India. It is made up of five ...

. It along with UPPL is the two main regional parties of Assam from

History

The BPF was formed as political party in year 2005, Hagrama Mohilary and Emmanuel Mosahary were selected as the President and the General Secretary of the new party. Hagrama Mohilary formed the first Elected Executive Bodoland Territorial Council after the end of the election.

Bodoland Peoples Front formed as per the resolution Vide No. 3, adopted in the Political convention held on 4th and 5th December 2005, as per BPF constitution, BPF shall bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution of India as established by law and to the principles of democracy, socialism and secularism as enshrined in the Indian Constitution, and also solemnly affirm our commitment to work for upholding the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India. To work for strengthening the Indian Nationalism providing due respect to the identities of all sections of people.

The party began its journey in the 2011 Assam Legislative election where the party stormed and surprised everyone by winning 12 seats. The party also became the 3rd largest party behind INC and AIUDF, and this was considering the fact that the party had only contested 29 seats. Ahead of the 2016 Assam legislative election the party joined the

National Democratic Alliance The National Democratic Alliance (NDA; ISO 15919, ISO: ''Rāṣṭrīya Lokatāntrik Gaṭhabandhan'') is an Indian big tent Political group, multi-party political alliance, led by the country's biggest political party, the Bharatiya Janata Pa ...

. The party was assigned 16 seats as per the agreement and won the same 12 seats. Despite just winning 12 seats the party had the best winning percentage and was part of the government in Assam. Then in 2021 the party left

and joined the

United Progressive Alliance The United Progressive Alliance (UPA; Hindi: Saṁyukta Pragatiśīl Gaṭhabandhan) was a Political group, political alliance in India led by the Indian National Congress. It was formed after the 2004 Indian general election, 2004 general ele ...

ahead of the 2021 Assam election. The party was assigned 12 seats and only ended up winning 4 seats, later the party decided to formally announce its departure from

, due to poor performance in the election.

Electoral performance

Elected Representatives

Members of Parliament

List of Ministers

Development in BTC

Educational Institutions

* Bodoland University,

Kokrajhar Kokrajhar () is a town in the Bodoland Territorial Region, an Autonomous administrative divisions of India, autonomous territory in Assam, one of the Northeast India, North Eastern states of India. History Under the Kingdom of Bhutan From the ...

* Central Institute of Technology, Kokrajhar * Bineswar Brahma Engineering College,

* Medical College, Besorgaon, Kokrajhar * Nursing College, Kokrajhar BTC chief Hagrama Mohilary laid the foundation stone of Udalguri Engineering College. BTC chief Hagrama Mohilary laid the foundation stone of a Rs 26-crore IT park at Onthai Gwlao, Chandamari, nearly 4 km northwest of Kokrajhar town.

References

{{National Democratic Alliance , state=collapsed State political parties in Assam Bodoland Political parties in Assam Recognised state political parties in India Political parties established in 2005 2005 establishments in Assam