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{{short description|Indian politician}} | {{short description|Indian politician}} | ||
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{{Use Indian English|date=September 2020}} | {{Use Indian English|date=September 2020}} | ||
{{Infobox officeholder | {{Infobox officeholder | ||
| name = Pramod Boro | | name = Pramod Boro | ||
| image = Pramod | | image = File:Pramod Bodo.jpg | ||
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|3|1|df=y}} | | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|3|1|df=y}} | ||
| birth_place = | | birth_place = [[Tamulpur]], [[Assam]], [[India]] | ||
| office = [[Chief Executive Member of the Bodoland Territorial Council]] | | office = 2nd [[Chief Executive Member of the Bodoland Territorial Council]] | ||
| term_start = 15 December 2020 | | term_start = 15 December 2020 | ||
| term_end = | | term_end = 4 October 2025 | ||
| predecessor = [[Hagrama Mohilary]] | | predecessor = [[Hagrama Mohilary]] | ||
| successor = | | successor = [[Hagrama Mohilary]] | ||
| constituency = Koklabari | | constituency = Koklabari | ||
| party = [[United People's Party Liberal]] | | party = [[United People's Party Liberal]] | ||
| otherparty = [[National Democratic Alliance]]<br>[[North-East Democratic Alliance]] | | otherparty = [[National Democratic Alliance]]<br >[[North-East Democratic Alliance]] | ||
| alma_mater = | | alma_mater = | ||
| footnotes = | | footnotes = | ||
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| year = | | year = | ||
| website = {{URL|https://upplofficial.com/}} | | website = {{URL|https://upplofficial.com/}} | ||
| office2 = President of All [[Boro people|Bodo]] [[Students]] [[Students' union|Union]] | |||
| parents = Ghanashyam Boro (Father) | |||
| term_start1 = | |||
| term_end1 = | |||
| term_start2 = 2009 | |||
| term_end2 = 2015 | |||
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'''Pramod Boro''' (born 1 March 1975) is an Indian politician serving as the president of | '''Pramod Boro''' (born 1 March 1975) is an Indian politician serving as the president of the [[United People's Party Liberal]] (UPPL) since 2020 and the 2nd chief executive member of the [[Bodoland Territorial Council]] representing Koklabari from 2020 till 2025. He was the former president of [[All Bodo Students' Union]] from 2009 to 2020.<ref>{{cite news |last=Basumatary |first=Rinoy |date=13 December 2020 |title=Pramod Boro – life and time of the 'new Chief Executive Member of Bodo Territorial Council' |url=https://nenow.in/north-east-news/assam/pramod-boro-life-and-time-of-the-new-chief-executive-member-of-bodo-territorial-council.html |accessdate=13 December 2020 |work=North East Now |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Meet Pramod Boro: The New Chief of BTC |date=14 December 2020 |url=https://www.sentinelassam.com/web-stories/pramod-boro-56}}</ref> | ||
|url=https://nenow.in/north-east-news/assam/pramod-boro-life-and-time-of-the-new-chief-executive-member-of-bodo-territorial-council.html|accessdate=13 December 2020 |work= | |||
== Political career == | == Political career == | ||
After | After stepping down as the president of ABSU, he formally joined the UPPL on 21 February 2020 during the Fourth Annual Convention held in Bijni, Chirang District, Assam. The UPPL had been formed on 5 August 2015 under the banner of the Bodoland Movement groups, with Urkhao Gwra Brahma serving as the founding president of the party. <ref>{{Cite news |last=Kalita |first=Kangkan |date=2020-02-14 |title=Pramod Boro quits ABSU after 30 years, may enter politics |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/pramod-boro-quits-absu-after-30-years-may-enter-politics/articleshow/74130815.cms |access-date=2025-01-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Khan |first=Shajid |date=2020-02-22 |title=Assam: Former ABSU president Pramod Boro joins UPPL |url=https://nenow.in/north-east-news/assam/assam-former-absu-president-pramod-boro-joins-uppl.html |access-date=2025-01-22 |work=North East Now}}</ref> | ||
Pramod Boro is currently the president of the UPPL.<ref>{{Cite news | title = Assam by-poll: UPPL president credits peace in Bodoland to party's success| url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2024/Nov/23/assam-by-poll-uppl-president-credits-peace-in-bodoland-to-partys-success | access-date=2025-01-22 | date = 2024-11-24}}</ref> Under his leadership, the UPPL came to power in the 2020 BTC elections through an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the [[Gana Suraksha Party]] (GSP). He has been serving as the [[chief executive member]] (CEM) of the [[Bodoland Territorial Council]] (BTC) since 15 December 2020.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Saha |first=Abhishek |date=2020-12-25 |title=Assam local polls: UPPL-BJP-GSP alliance proves strength in BTC floor test |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/north-east-india/assam-local-polls-uppl-bjp-gsp-alliance-proves-strength-in-btc-floor-test-7119312/ |access-date=2025-01-22 |work=[[The Indian Express]]}}</ref> | |||
Pramod Boro | == Early life and education == | ||
Pramod Boro was born to Ghanashyam Boro on the 1 March, 1975 at Sauraguri village under Tamulpur police station in Nalbari district (now in [[Baksa District|Baksa district]] ). | |||
He comes from an economically weaker agrarian family and faced significant economic challenges during his schooling days. He attended his village school during the lower primary stage and later went to Tamulpur HS School for his upper primary and matriculation education. | |||
After completing his higher secondary, Pramod Boro shifted to Guwahati for higher education. But due to his family’s financial constraints, he left his under-graduate studies midway. During this time, he worked as a daily wage laborer and a rickshaw puller.{{Citation needed|date=September 2025}} He also ventured into coal mining in Meghalaya with his friends to support his family.{{Citation needed|date=September 2025}} | |||
Pramod Boro did not complete his BSc degree. His highest educational qualification is HS(12th) as per Election Commission. | |||
== Early political career == | == Early political career == | ||
=== Bodoland Movement and Pramod Boro === | === Bodoland Movement and Pramod Boro === | ||
Since the time of his school days, he was active with the | Since the time of his school days, he was active with the Bodo Student's Union and their activities in various social-political movements in Assam. During that time of his school days, there was the beginning of the 'Great Mass Movement' for the separation of Bodoland as a state, under the leadership of then-president of ABSU, [[Upendranath Brahma]] since 1987. As an active student leader in the field of social movements, he had actively joined the movement along with the fellow students.{{Citation needed|date=September 2025}} | ||
His involvement with the mass movement | His involvement with the mass movement did not end there, in the latter days when he joined college, he was elected as the president of ABSU, Kamrup District Committee in the year 1997. He was given greater responsibility as a Central Committee member of All Bodo Students Union. He actively worked as the assistant general secretary and as the vice president of the union before he was elevated to the position of president in the All Bodo Students Union (ABSU). Before he became the president, he had actively worked with the union at the forefront carrying out massive educational awareness amongst the mass of Bodo people in the entire Assam. During the presidency of Rwn Gwra Narzary at the central, they started a program called ‘Year of Education’ in 2006, later it continued as the ‘[https://www.insidene.com/assam-mission-quality-education-towards-betterment-education/ Mission Quality Education]’ from 2007. Extensively with an action plan to improve the standard, accessibility, and quality education among the Bodo students in the state. [https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bodos-to-intensify-statehood-movement/article2955060.ece] | ||
=== Pramod Boro as ABSU | === Pramod Boro as ABSU president === | ||
He was elected as the | He was elected as the president of the All Bodo Students Union in 2009, at the annual conference held at Thelamara in Sonitpur district of Assam. Ever since he became the president of the union, he tirelessly dedicated himself to serve the society with a voluntary zeal. His prime importance towards his responsibility was to bring permanent peace to the Bodoland region and to bring change in the society where every human being can live with full freedom and have the right to education and development.{{Citation needed|date=September 2025}} | ||
His focus was to establish peace in the region ever since he got the momentum with the observance of 'Arms and Violence Free Society's foundation day observed by ABSU on 15 February 2009. Connecting all the major events observed by the Union as 'Anti Terrorism Day' on 30 July (Since 1996). However, the Bodos being stricken by many education-socio-economic and political issues the Bodo community was not free from various movements in the state. | His focus was to establish peace in the region ever since he got the momentum with the observance of 'Arms and Violence Free Society's foundation day observed by ABSU on 15 February 2009. Connecting all the major events observed by the Union as 'Anti Terrorism Day' on 30 July (Since 1996). However, the Bodos being stricken by many education-socio-economic and political issues the Bodo community was not free from various movements in the state.{{Citation needed|date=September 2025}} | ||
In December 2010, when the Congress-led UPA II government announced to create a separate state as Telangana, under the | In December 2010, when the Congress-led UPA II government announced to create a separate state as Telangana, under the presidency of Pramod Boro the ABSU raised its voice, "If Telangana why not Bodoland". Under the leadership of Pramod Boro as the President, from 2010 onwards the agitation to revive the Bodoland Statehood was decided, and started again as the third phase from 2 March 2010, with a huge mass gathering at Kajalgaon Rural Stadium.{{Citation needed|date=September 2025}} | ||
He spearheaded this third phase of the Bodoland Movement, where he got a huge response from the Mass. He proposed the Bodoland region boundary from Sonkosh in the West to Sadiya in the East. [https://www.eastmojo.com/news/2019/09/10/create-bodoland-or-face-mass-agitations-absu-leader-pramod-boro/] | He spearheaded this third phase of the Bodoland Movement, where he got a huge response from the Mass. He proposed the Bodoland region boundary from Sonkosh in the West to Sadiya in the East. [https://www.eastmojo.com/news/2019/09/10/create-bodoland-or-face-mass-agitations-absu-leader-pramod-boro/] | ||
== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
He has become the fifth Chief Executive Member (CEM) of BTC. He became the longest-serving President of ABSU from 2009 to 2020 (Feb). Under his leadership, in the long Bodoland Movement, there were many upheavals in Bodo politics, ABSU faced many criticisms and threats. Despite such situations, Pramod Boro has boldly continued the effort to bring permanent peace | He has become the fifth Chief Executive Member (CEM) of BTC. He became the longest-serving President of ABSU from 2009 to 2020 (Feb). Under his leadership, in the long Bodoland Movement, there were many upheavals in Bodo politics, ABSU faced many criticisms and threats. Despite such situations, Pramod Boro has boldly continued the effort to bring permanent peace to the region. [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/from-student-leader-to-btc-chief-the-meteoric-rise-of-pramod-boro/articleshow/79716613.cms][https://www.pratidintime.com/a-look-into-the-life-of-pramod-boro-btcs-new-cem/] | ||
== Positions held == | == Positions held == | ||
* | * 2020–2025: Elected as the chief executive member (CEM) of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC). | ||
* 2020–present: Elected as the president of The United People's Party Liberal (UPPL). | * 2020–present: Elected as the president of The United People's Party Liberal (UPPL). | ||
* 2009-2020: Elected as the president of All Bodo Students’ Union (ABSU). | * 2009-2020: Elected as the president of All Bodo Students’ Union (ABSU). | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
* [https://bodopedia.com/famous-people/pramod-boro-biography/ Pramod Boro Biography] | |||
* {{cite news |url=https://guwahatitimes.com/btr-six-new-ems-in-pramod-boros-council/?amp=1 |title=BTR: Six new EMs in Pramod Boro's council |publisher=Guwahati Times |date=February 2, 2021}} | |||
{{DEFAULTSORT:Boro, Pramod}} | {{DEFAULTSORT:Boro, Pramod}} | ||
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[[Category:Living people]] | [[Category:Living people]] | ||
[[Category:People from Kokrajhar district]] | [[Category:People from Kokrajhar district]] | ||
[[Category:Assam | [[Category:Politicians from Assam]] | ||
[[Category:Bodo nationalism]] | [[Category:Bodo nationalism]] | ||
[[Category:United People's Party Liberal politicians]] | [[Category:United People's Party Liberal politicians]] | ||
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Pramod Boro | |
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| 2nd Chief Executive Member of the Bodoland Territorial Council | |
| In office 15 December 2020 – 4 October 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Hagrama Mohilary |
| Succeeded by | Hagrama Mohilary |
| Constituency | Koklabari |
| President of All Bodo Students Union | |
| In office 2009–2015 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 March 1975 Tamulpur, Assam, India |
| Political party | United People's Party Liberal |
| Other political affiliations | National Democratic Alliance North-East Democratic Alliance |
| Parent(s) | Ghanashyam Boro (Father) |
| Website | upplofficial |
Pramod Boro (born 1 March 1975) is an Indian politician serving as the president of the United People's Party Liberal (UPPL) since 2020 and the 2nd chief executive member of the Bodoland Territorial Council representing Koklabari from 2020 till 2025. He was the former president of All Bodo Students' Union from 2009 to 2020.[1][2]
Political career[edit | edit source]
After stepping down as the president of ABSU, he formally joined the UPPL on 21 February 2020 during the Fourth Annual Convention held in Bijni, Chirang District, Assam. The UPPL had been formed on 5 August 2015 under the banner of the Bodoland Movement groups, with Urkhao Gwra Brahma serving as the founding president of the party. [3][4]
Pramod Boro is currently the president of the UPPL.[5] Under his leadership, the UPPL came to power in the 2020 BTC elections through an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Gana Suraksha Party (GSP). He has been serving as the chief executive member (CEM) of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) since 15 December 2020.[6]
Early life and education[edit | edit source]
Pramod Boro was born to Ghanashyam Boro on the 1 March, 1975 at Sauraguri village under Tamulpur police station in Nalbari district (now in Baksa district ).
He comes from an economically weaker agrarian family and faced significant economic challenges during his schooling days. He attended his village school during the lower primary stage and later went to Tamulpur HS School for his upper primary and matriculation education.
After completing his higher secondary, Pramod Boro shifted to Guwahati for higher education. But due to his family’s financial constraints, he left his under-graduate studies midway. During this time, he worked as a daily wage laborer and a rickshaw puller.[citation needed] He also ventured into coal mining in Meghalaya with his friends to support his family.[citation needed]
Pramod Boro did not complete his BSc degree. His highest educational qualification is HS(12th) as per Election Commission.
Early political career[edit | edit source]
Bodoland Movement and Pramod Boro[edit | edit source]
Since the time of his school days, he was active with the Bodo Student's Union and their activities in various social-political movements in Assam. During that time of his school days, there was the beginning of the 'Great Mass Movement' for the separation of Bodoland as a state, under the leadership of then-president of ABSU, Upendranath Brahma since 1987. As an active student leader in the field of social movements, he had actively joined the movement along with the fellow students.[citation needed]
His involvement with the mass movement did not end there, in the latter days when he joined college, he was elected as the president of ABSU, Kamrup District Committee in the year 1997. He was given greater responsibility as a Central Committee member of All Bodo Students Union. He actively worked as the assistant general secretary and as the vice president of the union before he was elevated to the position of president in the All Bodo Students Union (ABSU). Before he became the president, he had actively worked with the union at the forefront carrying out massive educational awareness amongst the mass of Bodo people in the entire Assam. During the presidency of Rwn Gwra Narzary at the central, they started a program called ‘Year of Education’ in 2006, later it continued as the ‘Mission Quality Education’ from 2007. Extensively with an action plan to improve the standard, accessibility, and quality education among the Bodo students in the state. [1]
Pramod Boro as ABSU president[edit | edit source]
He was elected as the president of the All Bodo Students Union in 2009, at the annual conference held at Thelamara in Sonitpur district of Assam. Ever since he became the president of the union, he tirelessly dedicated himself to serve the society with a voluntary zeal. His prime importance towards his responsibility was to bring permanent peace to the Bodoland region and to bring change in the society where every human being can live with full freedom and have the right to education and development.[citation needed]
His focus was to establish peace in the region ever since he got the momentum with the observance of 'Arms and Violence Free Society's foundation day observed by ABSU on 15 February 2009. Connecting all the major events observed by the Union as 'Anti Terrorism Day' on 30 July (Since 1996). However, the Bodos being stricken by many education-socio-economic and political issues the Bodo community was not free from various movements in the state.[citation needed]
In December 2010, when the Congress-led UPA II government announced to create a separate state as Telangana, under the presidency of Pramod Boro the ABSU raised its voice, "If Telangana why not Bodoland". Under the leadership of Pramod Boro as the President, from 2010 onwards the agitation to revive the Bodoland Statehood was decided, and started again as the third phase from 2 March 2010, with a huge mass gathering at Kajalgaon Rural Stadium.[citation needed]
He spearheaded this third phase of the Bodoland Movement, where he got a huge response from the Mass. He proposed the Bodoland region boundary from Sonkosh in the West to Sadiya in the East. [2]
Biography[edit | edit source]
He has become the fifth Chief Executive Member (CEM) of BTC. He became the longest-serving President of ABSU from 2009 to 2020 (Feb). Under his leadership, in the long Bodoland Movement, there were many upheavals in Bodo politics, ABSU faced many criticisms and threats. Despite such situations, Pramod Boro has boldly continued the effort to bring permanent peace to the region. [3][4]
Positions held[edit | edit source]
- 2020–2025: Elected as the chief executive member (CEM) of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC).
- 2020–present: Elected as the president of The United People's Party Liberal (UPPL).
- 2009-2020: Elected as the president of All Bodo Students’ Union (ABSU).
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Basumatary, Rinoy (13 December 2020). "Pramod Boro – life and time of the 'new Chief Executive Member of Bodo Territorial Council'". North East Now. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
- ↑ "Meet Pramod Boro: The New Chief of BTC". 14 December 2020.
- ↑ Kalita, Kangkan (14 February 2020). "Pramod Boro quits ABSU after 30 years, may enter politics". Retrieved 22 January 2025.
- ↑ Khan, Shajid (22 February 2020). "Assam: Former ABSU president Pramod Boro joins UPPL". North East Now. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
- ↑ "Assam by-poll: UPPL president credits peace in Bodoland to party's success". 24 November 2024. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
- ↑ Saha, Abhishek (25 December 2020). "Assam local polls: UPPL-BJP-GSP alliance proves strength in BTC floor test". The Indian Express. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
- Pramod Boro Biography
- "BTR: Six new EMs in Pramod Boro's council". Guwahati Times. 2 February 2021.