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Assam: Mohilary magic

When the Bodoland Peoples Front (BPF) fought the last Assembly elections, nobody had the slightest idea that it would be part of the next government at Dispur in league with the Congress. And it took one Hagrama Mohilary to turn the party from a non-entity to a kingmaker. From a militant leader fighting for a separate Bodoland state to the chief of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) and later a kingmaker in the state Assembly in 2006, the BPF president has played diverse roles. After making a clean sweep in the 2006 Assembly elections and forming the coalition government, the party under Mohilary also swept the BTC elections in 2010 for the second consecutive time. The BPF, led by Mohilary, also has two MPs today — one each in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and this is by no means a small achievement.

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