Lone Bodo MP to vote for UPA

The lone Bodoland People's Front (BPF) MP Sansuma Khunggur Bwiswmuthiary will vote for the UPA Government during the trial of strength in the Lok Sabha on July 22.

The lone Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) MP Sansuma Khunggur Bwiswmuthiary will vote for the UPA Government during the trial of strength in the Lok Sabha on July 22.

“We are in the Congress-led coalition Government in Assam. So it is obvious,” Bwiswmuthiary told PTI when asked whom he would vote for.

BPF Rajya Sabha member Biswajit Daimary said a delegation of the party has met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and conveyed its decision to support the UPA Government.

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“Our Lok Sabha MP will vote for the UPA,” Daimary said.

Bwiswmuthiary said they have placed certain demands of the Bodo community before the Congress leadership and expected actions on these.

Both Bwiswmuthiary and Daimary attended the lunch thrown by Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi here. Apart from others, the lunch was attended by eight of the nine Congress Lok Sabha MP from the state. However, Barpeta MP A F Golam Osmani did not turn up for the lunch.

Congress sources said though Osmani has “difference” with Gogoi, he would “definitely” vote for the government. He is expected to arrive in the capital later tonight from Silchar.

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