BJP ally in Assam snap ties, joins 'Mahagathbandhan'
India TV NewsJust a month ahead of the Assam Assembly polls, in a significant political development on Saturday, ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's estranged ally Bodoland People's Front has announced to snap ties with the party and has joined Congress led grand alliance to fight the assembly polls. BPF President Hagrama Mohilary in a tweet on Saturday night said: "To work for Peace, Unity and Development the Bodoland People's Front has decided to join hands with MAHAJATH in the forthcoming Assam Assembly Election. The BJP, after the Bodoland Territorial Council polls in early December last year, had forged an alliance with new ally United People's Party Liberal after discarding incumbent partner BPF. The BJP has decided to fight the polls in western Assam's tribal dominated Bodoland area in alliance with new ally UPPL besides Asom Gana Parishad.