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- ↑ Sitting and previous MLAs from Kokrajhar West Assembly Constituency
- ↑ Press Trust of India (17 January 2016). "Rabiram Narzary's BPPF merges with BPF". Business Standard. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
- ↑ BPF-BPPF unification move