People stand in a queue to solid their votes for the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) elections at a polling centre close to Urahiloga village, in Sonitpur on September 22, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI
The Bodoland People’s Front (BPF), a former ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is poised to emerge because the single-largest get together in Assam’s Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) elections.
The get together was main in 21 of the autonomous council’s 40 seats, greater than 12 hours after the counting of votes started at 8 a.m. on Friday (September 26, 2025). The outcomes are anticipated by Saturday (September 27, 2025) morning, officers of the State Election Commission stated.
The ruling United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL) was main in 11 and its ally-turned-rival BJP in eight seats, virtually as many seats as they gained within the 2020 BTC polls.
The elections to the BTC, presently dominated by the UPPL, BJP, and the regional Gana Suraksha Party, have been held on September 22. The council governs the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR), comprising 5 districts – Baksa, Chirang, Kokrajhar, Tamulpur, and Udalguri.
The BPF, led by former extremist Hagrama Mohilary, dominated the BTC for 17 years till 2020. An extended-term ally of the Congress get together, it switched allegiance to the BJP forward of the 2016 Assam Assembly elections.
Coalition math
The BPF severed ties with the BJP and quickly joined a Congress-led grand alliance through the 2021 State polls. Thereafter, it warmed as much as the BJP however steered away from a proper alliance.
The BJP seeks to safe a easy majority with at the least 21 seats within the council. If the decision is fractured, the BJP may ally with both the BPF or the UPPL.
During the run-up to the BTC polls, the BJP acknowledged that it believed in sustaining cordial ties with each the regional events. The saffron get together saved its choices open by not going for a pre-poll alliance with the Pramod Boro-led UPPL, in contrast to in 2020.
In 2020, the BPF emerged because the single-largest get together with 17 seats, however the UPPL with 12 seats and the BJP with 9 cobbled up the numbers with smaller events to type the federal government within the BTR.
The BTC elections are seen because the “semifinal” of the 2026 Assembly polls in Assam.
Approximately 78.42% of the 26.58 lakh voters solid their votes to resolve the destiny of 316 candidates. EOM
Published – September 26, 2025 11:41 pm IST
