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35-562: NEDA (33) Opposition (9) The Bodoland Territorial Council ( BTC ) is an autonomous council for the Bodoland Territorial Region established under 6th Schedule of The Constitution of India according to the Memorandum of Settlement between Bodoland Liberation Tiger Force (BLTF) and Government of India and Government of Assam. The BTC has 40 elected members and an additional six members that are appointed by

70-663: Is Kuzholuzo Nienu . On 22 March 2004, the NPF absorbed the Nagaland Democratic Party . Prior to October 2002, the party was known as Nagaland People's Council (NPC). The name of the party was changed from Nagaland People's Council (NPC) to Naga People's Front (NPF) in the Ninth General Convention held at Kohima in October 2002. This historic decision found wide acceptance among the people of

105-737: Is the President of the party. [1] Awangbow Newmai is State unit President of the party in Manipur while Losii Dikho is the Legislature Party Leader of NPF in Manipur Legislative Assembly . Neiphiu Rio , the Lok Sabha member from the lone constituency of Nagaland was the leader of the party till 16 January 2018. T. R. Zeliang became the party leader till April 29, 2022. The current party leader

140-770: The 2019 Indian Election but decided to fight alone. They contested on all 32 constituencies of the Sikkim Legislative Assembly and won 17 constituencies, thus ending Pawan Kumar Chamling 's 25-year rule in Sikkim. Indra Hang Subba won the Sikkim Lok Sabha constituency by defeating his nearest rival of Sikkim Democratic Front Dek Bahadur Katwal 12,443 margin. After the assembly election, 1 MLA from Sikkim Krantikari Morcha and 2 MLAs from Sikkim Democratic Front each vacated their second seat after being elected from two constituencies. Before

175-586: The Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party was declared elected uncontested in the Northern Angami II constituency after no other candidate was nominated against him. In March 2018, The National People's Party came second behind Indian National Congress by winning 19 seats in the 2018 Meghalaya legislative assembly election . Conrad Sangma staked claim to form government with a letter of support from

210-427: The 34 MLA , that included 19 from NPP, 6 from United Democratic Party , 4 from People's Democratic Front , two each from Hill State People's Democratic Party and Bharatiya Janata Party , and an independent . In March 2018, Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party came second behind Naga People's Front by winning 18 seats in the 2018 Nagaland legislative assembly election . Neiphiu Rio staked claim to form

245-599: The BJP on his side. Due to prolonged discontent between the two leaders, a BJP legislature party meeting couldn't have been called. On 10 May 2021, Sarma was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Assam, succeeding his colleague Sarbananda Sonowal . NPP chief Conrad Sangma gave resignation from the post of Chief Minister to Governor Phagu Chauhan . He staked his claim on a new government with support of 32 MLAs (26 NPP, 2 BJP, 2 HSPDP, and 2 Independents). However, later in

280-673: The Chief Executive Member. However, between April 2020 and December 2020, all executive and legislative functions were exercised by a principal secretary acting on behalf of the Governor of Assam . In April 2020, Siddharth Singh has been appointed as the Principal Secretary of Bodoland Territorial Council, while Rajesh Prasad was posted as the administrator. join bjp The leader of the UPPL, Pramod Boro, became

315-577: The Governor Satyadev Narayan Arya and staked claim new government with the support of 33 MLAs (32 BJP and 1 IPFT). In 2023 Nagaland Legislative Assembly election , North East Democratic Alliance again gained the majority in the house after winning election and Neiphiu Rio took oath after post elections . Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party 's Hekani Jakhalu Kense from Dimapur III and Salhoutuonuo Kruse from Western Angami constituencies became first women MLAs in

350-656: The Governor of Assam. The area under the BTC jurisdiction is officially called the Bodoland Territorial Area District (BTAD). The region falls within the geographical map of the least developed region in India. The agro-based economy is the only source of livelihood of the people. Industrialisation and other employment opportunities are scant. The Bodoland Territorial Council is headed by a Speaker and

385-538: The NDA. Currently, the NPF is a part of North-East Regional Political Front consisting of political parties of the northeast which has supported the National Democratic Alliance (India) . On 11 May 2015, all of the assembly's Congress MLAs joined the NPF. Forty-six MLAs from the 60 member Nagaland Legislative Assembly are from the NPF. The opposition, Congress, is represented by 18 MLAs and

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420-522: The Naga People's Front joined the BJP led NEDA. On 18 May 2019, NPF pulled out of NDA Government in Manipur. After 2022 Manipur Legislative Assembly election , NPF rejoined NDA Government in Manipur. On October 21, 2023 Apong Pongener was elected as President of Naga People's Front. [2] In June 2024, the NPF reaffirmed its support for the BJP government in Manipur . The aims and objectives of

455-1010: The Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India are shown in bold. Naga People%27s Front The Naga People's Front ( NPF ) is a regional political party in Nagaland , Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh . It headed the Nagaland government with the Bharatiya Janata Party , as part of the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland from 2003 to 2018. NPF is coalition partner of N. Biren Singh ministry led BJP government in Manipur . The party ideology includes Conservative Christianity , thus encouraging it. It demands and supports greater autonomy for Naga areas and Naga cultural Nationalism. Apong Pongener

490-761: The UPPL to form an executive body in Bodoland Territorial Council . The leader of the UPPL, Pramod Boro became the new Chief Executive Member of the Bodoland Territorial Council on 15 December 2020. Soon after the election results were declared and the BJP-led NDA emerged victorious it faced the dilemma of who should be made the Chief Minister. While most of the top leaders in the BJP state unit favored incumbent Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal , speculations suggest that Himanta Biswa Sarma had more elected MLAs of

525-456: The area, roads, ferries, bridges, sanitation, employment and income and general taxes for the maintenance of schools and roads. No party has won a majority in the elections in the December 2020 council election with BPF emerging as the single largest party. On 13 December 2020, the UPPL, BJP and GSP agreed to form the next executive. Executive power is vested in an executive committee led by

560-500: The by-elections to these three vacant seats were held, 10 MLAs of Sikkim Democratic Front defected to Bhartiya Janata Party and 2 MLAs of Sikkim Democratic Front defected to Sikkim Krantikari Morcha, leaving Sikkim Democratic Front with only 1 MLA. SKM had 18 MLAs and BJP had 10 MLAs. In the by-elections held on 21 October 2019, BJP won two seats and SKM one seat. The final seat numbers are: SKM 19 seats, BJP 12 seats and SDF 1 seat. On 17 June 2020 9 MLAs supporting N. Biren Singh led

595-671: The election on 19 July 2012. When the Nagaland Post asked the Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio whether the support extended to the presidential candidate was also "issue based" as the NPF-led DAN was supporting the UPA government at the centre on the same line, the Chief Minister said that his party was supporting the UPA and hence it was the right perspective that the DAN legislators also support UPA’s presidential nominee. NPF's main opposition in

630-541: The evening, HSPDP withdrew their support which reduced the NPP-led MDA tally to 30. The opposition parties with 29 MLAs counter-claimed to form a United Front. Leaders of TMC, Congress, PDF, HSPDP, VPP had meeting with UDP leader Lahkmen Rymbui to form alternative government barring MDA alliance consists NPP and BJP. Later UDP, PDF, and HSPDP pledged support to an NPP-BJP-Independent MDA alliance. Manik Saha gave his resignation as Chief Minister of Tripura to

665-556: The executive committee is chaired by a Chief Executive Member , currently Pramod Boro . The BTC consists of five contiguous districts — Kokrajhar , Baksa , Udalguri , Chirang , Tamulpur — carved out of seven existing districts — Kokrajhar , Bongaigaon , Barpeta , Nalbari , Kamrup , Darrang and Sonitpur — an area of 8970 km (11% of Assam land area i.e. 78,438  km) comprising various protected tribal belts and blocks in Assam . Its establishment

700-645: The government in Manipur revolted against him and withdrew support from his government blaming him for lack of action during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the vote of confidence, he was one of the eight MLAs who had skipped the assembly proceedings defying the party whip for the trust vote. All members resigned from Indian National Congress and later joined Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of Ram Madhav , Baijayant Panda , and Chief Minister of Manipur N. Biren Singh. In November 2020, Bharatiya Janata Party announced that it has agreed to support efforts by

735-427: The government with a letter of support from the 32 MLA , that included 17 from NDPP, 12 from Bharatiya Janata Party , 1 from Janata Dal (United) and an independent . In March 2018, Bharatiya Janata Party won the 2018 Tripura legislative assembly election 35 seats. Its ally Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura won 8 of 9 seats which they contested. The alliance defeated Communist Party of India (Marxist) who

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770-507: The history of Nagaland. Both get elected as NDPP candidates. In March 2024, Tipra Motha joined Manik Saha-led Tripura government and Animesh Debbarma and Brishaketu Debbarma , took the oath as ministers. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Bharatiya Janata Party Union Ministers(1996 till date) List of BJP's Lok Sabha MPs from North East India (2019-2024) (2014-2019) List of BJP's Rajya Sabha M.P.s from North East India Autonomous district councils operating under

805-767: The legislative assembly is the Indian National Congress party. Although the Naga People's Front has local arrangements with the NDA it previously had not support either the NDA or the UPA in the central government where it has one MP in the Lok Sabha . For the 2014 General Election, the North-East Regional Political Front (NERPF), a consortium of 10 regional parties, including the Naga People's Front announced their support for

840-694: The new Chief Executive Member of the Bodoland Territorial Council on 15 December 2020 with Gobinda Basumatary becoming the Deputy Chief Executive. Subsequently, a new twelve member executive committee was formed with eight members from the United People's Party Liberal , seven members from the Bharatiya Janata Party and one member from the Gana Suraksha Party . But in mid 2021, GSP left NDA and started talks with TMC . North-East Democratic Alliance The alliance

875-598: The northeastern states of Sikkim , Pawan Kumar Chamling ; Assam , Sarbananda Sonowal ; Arunachal Pradesh , Kalikho Pul and Nagaland , T. R. Zeliang were the founding members of the alliance. BJP President Amit Shah chaired the meeting which was also attended by BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav and BJP North East Zonal Organizing Secretary Ajay Jamwal. The alliance suffered a big setback in Arunachal Pradesh when their 30 MLAs defected back to Indian National Congress . On 16 September 2016, 43 MLAs from

910-581: The rest of the assembly consists of seven independent MLAs. In May 2016, after the Bharatiya Janata Party led National Democratic Alliance formed its first government in Assam , a new alliance called the North-East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) was formed with Himanta Biswa Sarma as its convener. The Chief Ministers of the north eastern states of Sikkim , Assam , Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland too belong to this alliance. Thus,

945-1026: The ruling party, under the CM Pema Khandu , left Indian National Congress to join People's Party of Arunachal in alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party . Though Pema Khandu is still the Chief Minister, it is soon expected that either a coalition government will be formed with BJP as the speaker of the assembly has also changed sides with the CM, or that the Indian Government will dissolve the state assembly for fresh general elections. In October 2016, People's Party of Arunachal formally joined hands with Bharatiya Janata Party making Arunachal Pradesh 15th state to have BJP led NDA in Power, and with this new coalition, Tamiyo Taga sworn in as Cabinet minister of Arunachal Pradesh . On December 21, 2016, Khandu

980-463: The state, as a popular wish of the state was to modify the leadership of the state and make it more inclusive. In Nagaland, both the ruling Naga People's Front and the opposition party, the UPA , supported Pranab Mukherjee during the 2012 presidential election. Mukherjee held a meeting with Neiphiu Rio and DAN legislators in Dimapur where NPF leaders formally endorsed their support. Mukherjee won

1015-657: The support of two independents. He became second Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh of Bharatiya Janata Party in Arunachal Pradesh after 44 days lead Gegong Apang government in 2003. In March 2017, Nongthombam Biren Singh is the leader of Bharatiya Janata Party was sworn in the Chief Ministers of Manipur on March 15, 2017. Here is the list of the ministers of his ministry. The Bharatiya Janata Party allied with National People's Party , Naga People's Front , Lok Janshakti Party and others it

1050-577: Was accorded the status of National Party from Election Commission of India as it got 5 seats in the assembly with a vote share of 14.56% getting also the status of a Recognized State Party in Arunachal Pradesh. Janata Dal (United) party got the status of a Recognized State Party by the Election Commission of India as it secured 7 seats in the assembly winning a vote share of 9.88% in the state. In Sikkim, The Sikkim Krantikari Morcha came close to allying with Bhartiya Janata Party before

1085-646: Was established after Bharatiya Janata Party led National Democratic Alliance which includes parties like Asom Gana Parishad and Bodoland People's Front formed its first government in Assam . The founding political parties of the North-East Democratic Alliance led by the Bharatiya Janata Party on May 26, 2019, included Naga People's Front , Sikkim Democratic Front , People's Party of Arunachal , Asom Gana Parishad and Bodoland People's Front . The Chief Ministers of

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1120-608: Was ruling since 1993. In 2018 state assembly elections , Mizo National Front has emerged as largest political party and won 26 seats and Pu Zoramthanga became the new Chief Minister of Mizoram . This was the first time that Congress does not have any government in any of the states in Northeast India . In May 2019, Bharatiya Janata Party won the 2018 Arunachal Pradesh legislative assembly election 41 seats whereas its ally's National People's Party won 5 and Janata Dal (United) got 7 seats. National People's Party

1155-450: Was suspended from the party by the party president and Takam Pario was named as the next likely Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh replacing Khandu after People's Party of Arunachal suspended Khandu along with 6 other MLAs. In December 2016, Khandu proved the majority on the floor with 33 of the People's Party of Arunachal ’s 43 legislators joining the Bharatiya Janata Party as the BJP party increased its strength to 45 and it has

1190-481: Was the first time that BJP formed government in Manipur through INC emerged as the single largest party. In 2018, the BJP and the ruling Nagaland People's Front dissolved their electoral alliance prior to the election. The BJP instead chose to form an alliance with the newly formed Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party , led by former CM Neiphiu Rio . Lok Sabha MP and former Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio of

1225-683: Was under the Amended Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India . The BTC was constituted in 2003 and the first elections were held in 2005. The executive and legislative powers of the Bodoland Territorial Council are derived from the provisions of the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India and the 2003 and 2020 Bodoland Peace Agreements. The powers and competencies of the council are as follows: The Bodoland Territorial Council to levy taxes, fees and tolls on; buildings and land, animals, vehicles, boats, entry of goods into

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