The All Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) Scheduled Caste Students Union and BTC Scheduled Caste Jatiya Parishad has expressed their full support to the United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL) candidate Urkhao Gwra Brahma for Kokrajhar constituency seat this parliamentary election.
Talking to reporters at a press meet at Kokrajhar Press Club, the union president Pradeep Sarkar informed that they had decided to extend full support to UPPL candidate in the Kokrajhar constituency for the Lok Sabha election.
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Sarkar said that the ruling Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) government in BTC and the BJP government in Assam had failed to address and work on the genuine issues of the scheduled caste people.
“The Union had put forward their various demands, submitted memorandum, staged dharnas but the government have failed to fulfill and addressed the issues and have not taken any step to bring the SC community in the larger framework of development,” Sarkar added.