Kokrajhar, Dec. 13: Telangana has brought arch rivals NDFB and the Bodoland People’s Front closer with the Bodo outfit lavishing praise on the Hagrama Mohilary-led party for raising the issue of a separate state for the Bodos in Parliament as well as in the Assam Assembly.
“We welcome the step taken by the BPF MLAs under the leadership of Hagrama Mohilary who raised the issue of Bodoland in the Assembly. By asking his party MLAs to raise the issue in the Assembly, BTC chief Hagrama Mohilary had kept his word on supporting Bodoland,” the information and public relation secretary of the NDFB, S. Sanjarang, said.
BPF Rajya Sabha MP Biswajit Daimary had also raised the demand last week.
Mohilary, the chief of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), recently said he would support the NDFB if the outfit dropped the demand for sovereignty and negotiated for a separate Bodoland.
NDFB leader Sanjarang said the Bodos had been demanding a separate state since Independence through various means.
Yesterday, former Rajya Sabha MP and student leader Urkhao Gwra Brahma asked Mohilary to denounce the BTC Accord first. Brahma who headed the Bodoland movement in the late nineties as the leader of Absu said: “As a signatory to the BTC Accord he (Mohilary) should first step down before demanding a separate Bodoland state. It is he who accepted the BTC Accord in place of Bodoland state and signed the Bodo Accord.”
The Kamtapur State Demand Committee led by the Biswajit Roy faction of the All Koch Rajbongshi Students’ Union today staged a rally at Dimalgaon, demanding a separate Cooch Behar or Kamtapur state comprising six districts of north Bengal and 15 of Assam.
Regional political parties, civil society organisations and student groups in the twin tribal districts of North Cachar Hills and Karbi Anglong have jointly given a call for a 36-hour bandh from 5am in the districts from Tuesday for a separate autonomous state comprising these districts.
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