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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...

GUWAHATI, Feb 12 ? The China Government?s action of developing infrastructure all along the international border may pose grave security threat to India and the Arunachal Pradesh Government has already informed the Centre about the development. This was disclosed by Arunachal Pradesh Education Minister Takam Sanjoy, who is also the State Government spokesman.

Talking to The Assam Tribune here on his way to Itanagar from New Delhi, Sri Sanjoy said that the border with China should be taken very seriously by the Government of India as ?we do not want a repeat of 1962?. He said that the China...

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...

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...