# Pramod Boro

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 and current Chief Executive Member of the Bodoland Territorial Council since 2020 representing Koklabari. He was the former president of All Bodo Students Union from 2009 to 2020.

## Political career

After stepping down as the President of ABSU, he formally joined the United People's Party Liberal (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.
Pramod Boro is currently the President of the United People's Party Liberal (UPPL). Under his leadership, the United People's Party Liberal (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.

## Early life and education

Pramod Boro was born to Late Ghanashyam Boro on the 1st of 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. He also ventured into coal mining in Meghalaya with his friends to support his family.
After a few months, he returned to his studies and completed his degree at Rangia College in 1994.

## Early political career
### Bodoland Movement and Pramod Boro

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, Late Upendra Nath 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.
His involvement with the mass movement didn't 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.

### Pramod Boro as ABSU President

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.
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.
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.
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.

## 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 in the region.

## Positions held

* 2020–present: 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).