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Blow to Bodo unity hope
Date: December 5, 2005 •
Views: • There is/are 0 comment(s). Source / copyright: Correspondent / The Telegraph Sections: Politics Kokrajhar, Dec. 4: Prospects of a reconciliation between bickering Bodo political leaders evaporated today as a ?special political convention? got under way in Kokrajhar, one that is expected to lead to the formation of a parallel set-up of the Bodoland People?s Progressive Front (BPPF). The convention has been convened by Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) chief Hagrama Mohilary. The names of a new president and secretary and other party functionaries will be announced during the open session tomorrow. Sources said the names of Lok Sabha member Sansuma Kungur Bwiswmuthiary and BTC deputy chief Chandan Brahma figure on the top of the list of contenders for the posts of president and secretary of the parallel committee. Rabiram Narzary and Bodoland Demand Legislature Party MLA Hemendranath Brahma hold these posts in the BPPF central committee. On Saturday, Mohilary formed the Bijini and Kajalgaon parallel district committees of the party at a public meeting at Borobazar in Chirang district. Ganesh Brahma and Manik Basumatary have been made president and secretary of Bijini committee while Kampha Borgoyari and James Basumatary were selected president and secretary of the Kajalagaon unit. Mohilary floated the parallel district units of the party in Kokrajhar, Gossaigaon, Parbatjhora and Chirang in September. Mohilary and Narzary had fallen out during the first elections to the BTC in May this year. Though different Bodo organisations, including the All Bodo Students? Union and the Bodo Sahitya Sabha, tried to resolve the differences, they were unsuccessful. BPPF president Rabiram Narzary expelled three of its vice-presidents, including BTC deputy chief Chandan Brahma, BTC executive member Sobharam Basumatary and Baktar Ali Ahmed of the Regional Minority Front, on charges of anti-party activities in November last year after a party meeting in Dotma. The three campaigned for candidates backed by Mohilary in the byelections to the two BTC constituencies of Dotma and Banargaon, which were held recently. The Hagrama Mohilary faction of the BPPF won both seats in the byelections, defeating the Narzary faction despite the latter being backed by the All Bodo Students? Union. In Bonargaon, Narzary himself suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of Mono Kumar Brahma, who won by a margin of 5,883 votes. Dhakendranath Brahma won the Dotma seat, defeating Shankarlal Brahma by a margin of 2,808 votes.  • Development funds for Assam (May 20, 2006): The Ministry of Rural Development has released Rs 74.52 lakh to Assam under Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water Mission for implementation of Information, Education and Communication (IEC) activities in four districts namely, Cachar, Hailakand ... More
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Sections: Economy / Tripura • Blow to Bodo unity hope (December 5, 2005): Prospects of a reconciliation between bickering Bodo political leaders evaporated today as a ?special political convention? got under way in Kokrajhar, one that is expected to lead to the formation of a parallel set-up of the Bodoland People?s Progressive Front (BPPF).
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