Politics / Assam

UDALGURI, Feb 13 ? The Nepali-speaking communities all over India and the Bodos in Assam and other NE States both belong to the minority linguistic groups like other minorities sharing common problems and hence when the Bodoland Territorial Council is formed, the Bodo organisations themselves have to ensure security to land, property and human resources of all minority ethnic groups living in the BTC. This view was expressed by Sri Sukhman Moktan, organising secretary of All India Gorkha Parishanga while speaking as distinguished guest in the open session of the 34th biennial (golden jubilee...

GUWAHATI, Feb 13?The Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT) will finalise the list of persons to be included in the interim body of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) within a week. This was disclosed by the BLT publicity secretary Mainao Daimary today. Talking to The Assam Tribune, Daimary said that the BLT will first seek the opinion of the Bodo mass organisations on the composition of the interim council and then the list would be finalised in a meeting of the BLT. He revealed that the State Cabinet would have to take the formal resolution for the dissolution of the Bodoland Autonomous Council...

GUWAHATI, Feb 12 ?The Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad has called upon the Bodo leadership of the State to ensure that the non-Bodos living in the BTC area do not lag behind the Bodos in terms of rights and development.

In a press release, AJYCP president Apurba Kumar Bhattacharya and general secretary Dilip Shankar Saikia said it was the duty of the Bodo leadership to allay the fears of the non-Bodos living in the BTC area arising out of the signing of the Bodo Accord on February 10.

The two leaders said that while the aboriginal Bodos of the State had every right to enjoy autonomy...

KOKRAJHAR, Feb 12 ? The leadership of Bodoland Liberation Tiger (BLT) has decided to seek public opinion on the composition of the interim Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) in the forthcoming conference of All Bodo Students Union (ABSU). Talking to this correspondent after the public felicitation ceremony at Ronchaidham in Bongaigaon today the BLT leader Mainao Daimari and ABSU Adviser UG Brahma, MP, said that the formation of the interim BTC council would take some time as they were planning to seek public opinion on it during ABSU conference.

The BLT and ABSU leaders who were given warm...

Kokrajhar, Feb. 11: Fresh from a mission well-accomplished, the signatories to the new Bodo accord today returned home to a welcome fit for heroes.

The leaders? return was the icing on the cake for the Bodo community, which has not stopped rejoicing since the accord was signed yesterday, paving the way for the creation of a Bodoland Territorial Council.

Though a bandh called by the Sanmilita Janagosthiya Sangram Samiti affected parts of Bongaigaon district, there was no mistaking the sense of elation throughout the troubled Bodo heartland over the fulfilment of a long-cherished dream.

As the...

GUWAHATI, Feb 11 ?A meeting of about 2000 volunteers of Sanmilita Janagosthiya Sangram Samity (SJSS) held at Rangiya today denounced the creation of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) and warned that creation of the council would pave way for spread of fratricidal clashes from Bodo areas to other areas in the State. Informing this, the SJSS convenor Brojen Mahanta renewed the threat to intensify agitation against the BTC creation stating that the BTC would be a step forwardtowards further disintegration of the State. Sri Mahanta said by granting BTC for Bodos in connivance with the BLT the...

KOKRAJHAR, Feb 11 ? With the arrival of the Bodo leadership at Kokrajhar College field at 3.40 pm by a helicopter from Guwahati, thousands of people greeted the delegates, with the highest degree of enthusiasm for successful signing of the BTC Accord in New Delhi on February 10 last. Addressing the gathering Sri Hagrama Basumatary, the chairman of BLT and signatory of the BTC Accord exclaimed with joy that the signing of the accord would have the path for the Bodos of BTC to have a stable and strong future. Sri Rabiram Narzary president, ABSU assured the gathering that signing of the accord...

GUWAHATI, Feb 11 ? The historic Bodo Accord, signed yesterday between the State and Central Governments and the Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT), if implemented properly, will bring long lasting solution to the Bodo tangle, asserted the chairman of the BLT, Sri Hagrama Basumatary. Talking to The Assam Tribune at the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi Airport immediately after his arrival from New Delhi today, the jubilant BLT chairman assured that all possible steps would be taken to ensure protection to all sections of people living in the proposed Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) area.

The BLT...

New Delhi/ Guwahati, Feb 10: Fresh from its talks with the NSCN (I-M) to try and return peace to the Naga hills at an early date, the Centre has clinched another accord in the North East: this time with the Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT), hoping to end strife in Assam’s Bodo-inhabited areas.

In a tripartite agreement signed today, the Centre, Assam and the BLT decided on the creation of an autonomous, self-governing Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) which would replace the existing Bodoland Autonomous Council.

As many as 3,082 villages have been identified for inclusion in the proposed BTC...

Feb. 10: Upbeat Bodo leaders today promised not to commit the ?same mistakes? which led to the failure of the 1993 accord but sought the co-operation of their ?Assamese brethren? for the success of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC).

?Let me assure you, there will be no repetition of what happened with the 1993 Accord, which was done in a hurried manner,? BLT leader Mainao Daimary said after signing of the pact in New Delhi today between the outfit, the Centre and the Assam government.

However, the accord drew a sharp retort from the apex non-Bodo organisation ? Sanmilita Janagosthiya...