GUWAHATI: The seeds for the swearing-in of the fourth Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) of BJP-UPPL-GSP mix, led by Pramod Boro, have been sown within the third peace accord signed in January with the Centre and the state authorities.
For ousted former BTC chief Hagrama Mohilary, who heads BPF, it was a repeat of historical past that he had written 17 years in the past when he signed the earlier Bodo accord in 2003 with the NDA authorities on the Centre and the Congress authorities is the state. Mohilary, a former militant chief after disbanding his Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT) shaped BPF and took cost of BTC.
Sarcastically, the second Bodo accord of 2003 signed by Mohilary got here into being after then Congress state authorities dissolved the earlier autonomous council, generally known as Bodo Autonomous Council (BAC) born out of the primary Bodo accord in 1993, which was first led by former MP SK Bwiswmuthiary for an interim interval after which by Prem Singh Brahma.
The Bodo heartland was as soon as the state’s most troubled spot the place civil teams and militant outfits have been engaged in peaceable and armed actions for both separate state or secession. Every part of the motion gave rise to peace accords — the primary in 1993 after which in 2003 and now in 2020. And in all these accords, the one widespread hyperlink has been the highly effective All Bodo College students’ Union (ABSU).
The primary accord was signed with ABSU and Bodo Individuals’s Motion Committee (BPAC), which failed and the Bodo homeland plunged into its most violent interval. ABSU resumed its motion for a separate state, a brand new militant outfit, BLT, unleashed terror in assist of their demand. Ethnic riots broke out between Bodos and Santhals in Kokrajhar and Bongaigaon, leaving hundreds homeless. A decade later, the second accord got here by and this time, too, ABSU ready the bottom work however the remaining accord was signed by the reformed BLT members solely with the Centre and state to kind the BTC below the sixth Schedule of the Structure, with safeguards of rights of non-Bodos.
With BLT disbanded, it was the older NDFB preventing for sovereignty, which unleashed its reign of terror within the final 17 years, which included the serial blasts within the state in 2008 that left over 100 lifeless. The interval additionally noticed re-run of ethnic riots between Bodos and migrant Muslims in 2012 and 2014.
After NDFB disintegrated itself into 4 factions, it was time for one more accord and the third one was signed with ABSU because the precept signatory (represented by Pramod Boro then as ABSU president), together with the leaders of the 4 NDFB factions. PM Narendra Modi then mentioned the accord is “an finish to a decades-old drawback and marks the start of a brand new period of peace and progress.”
The Bodo homeland remains to be not free from militancy and fragments of NDFB stay at giant. After taking oath as the brand new BTC chief, Boro mentioned, “One in all our main goals is to instil whole peace in BTR and I attraction to all those that are nonetheless at giant to affix the mainstream.”
For ousted former BTC chief Hagrama Mohilary, who heads BPF, it was a repeat of historical past that he had written 17 years in the past when he signed the earlier Bodo accord in 2003 with the NDA authorities on the Centre and the Congress authorities is the state. Mohilary, a former militant chief after disbanding his Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT) shaped BPF and took cost of BTC.
Sarcastically, the second Bodo accord of 2003 signed by Mohilary got here into being after then Congress state authorities dissolved the earlier autonomous council, generally known as Bodo Autonomous Council (BAC) born out of the primary Bodo accord in 1993, which was first led by former MP SK Bwiswmuthiary for an interim interval after which by Prem Singh Brahma.
The Bodo heartland was as soon as the state’s most troubled spot the place civil teams and militant outfits have been engaged in peaceable and armed actions for both separate state or secession. Every part of the motion gave rise to peace accords — the primary in 1993 after which in 2003 and now in 2020. And in all these accords, the one widespread hyperlink has been the highly effective All Bodo College students’ Union (ABSU).
The primary accord was signed with ABSU and Bodo Individuals’s Motion Committee (BPAC), which failed and the Bodo homeland plunged into its most violent interval. ABSU resumed its motion for a separate state, a brand new militant outfit, BLT, unleashed terror in assist of their demand. Ethnic riots broke out between Bodos and Santhals in Kokrajhar and Bongaigaon, leaving hundreds homeless. A decade later, the second accord got here by and this time, too, ABSU ready the bottom work however the remaining accord was signed by the reformed BLT members solely with the Centre and state to kind the BTC below the sixth Schedule of the Structure, with safeguards of rights of non-Bodos.
With BLT disbanded, it was the older NDFB preventing for sovereignty, which unleashed its reign of terror within the final 17 years, which included the serial blasts within the state in 2008 that left over 100 lifeless. The interval additionally noticed re-run of ethnic riots between Bodos and migrant Muslims in 2012 and 2014.
After NDFB disintegrated itself into 4 factions, it was time for one more accord and the third one was signed with ABSU because the precept signatory (represented by Pramod Boro then as ABSU president), together with the leaders of the 4 NDFB factions. PM Narendra Modi then mentioned the accord is “an finish to a decades-old drawback and marks the start of a brand new period of peace and progress.”
The Bodo homeland remains to be not free from militancy and fragments of NDFB stay at giant. After taking oath as the brand new BTC chief, Boro mentioned, “One in all our main goals is to instil whole peace in BTR and I attraction to all those that are nonetheless at giant to affix the mainstream.”
