Assam Chief Minister: Government Will Implement Bodo Accord
GUWAHATI: Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma stated on Sunday that the Assam government is fully committed to putting the Bodo Accord into effect.
The Assam Chief Minister made the this statement on Sunday in Jougalu in Assam's Kokrajhar: "There was a time when the sounds of gunfire and explosives kept the residents of this land awake at night. Currently, the area is at peace."
CM Sarma also announced the development of a sports center in Kokrajhar. He declared, "We will build a sporting center here that is comparable to Sarusajai in Guwahati. We would allocate Rs 150 crore toward this."
He added that the complex would be built in the next six months.
"The process of allotting Land Pattas will commence from November 21 in Bodoland Territorial Region," CM Sarma stated in another significant announcement.
CM Sarma confidently said, "BJP-UPPL will triumph together in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections."
"Measures will be made to drop charges against the leader of the NDFB. We shall restart implementing the Orunodoi Scheme in Bodoland in the upcoming years," the Assam CM continued.
The Bodo Accord: What is it?
On January 27, 2020, the federal government, the state of Assam, and the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), an outlawed terrorist organization with ties to Assam, signed the Tripartite Bodo Accord or Memorandum of the Settlement. The Bodo Accord aims to promote peace and put an end to the Bodo-Kachari People's demands for secession.
This agreement is an extension of one that was already in place in 2003. Aiming to increase the administrative, legislative, and financial authority granted to the Bodo Territorial Region (BTR) and the council in charge of its administration, the Bodo Accord of 2020 was created.
The Accord is anticipated to ultimately put an end to the nearly three-decade-long armed rebellion. And there won't be any more instances like the Assam unrest of 2012, which may once more force 4 lakh people from 400 villages to seek refuge in relief camps owing to rioting that broke out between local Bodos and Bengali-speaking Muslims.
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