Amit Shah says over 80% of Bodo accord conditions implemented

“Congress made fun of the BTR peace accord when it was signed on January 27, 2020. They said there will be no peace in Bodoland and this agreement will be a joke… Today, it has brought peace and development to a region which was known for conflict and violence,” he said.

Elections to the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) — where an alliance of the United People’s Party Liberal and the BJP is in power — is slated to take place later this year.

The 2020 Bodo Accord was the third such accord signed with Bodo groups after the Bodo insurgency aimed at a separate state flared up in the 1980s. The 2020 accord brought about a truce with four factions of the militant National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB). It extended on provisions already in effect through the earlier accords by providing for, among other things, more legislative, administrative, executive, and financial powers to the BTC.

Shah said in the last three years Rs 287 crore had been spent on the rehabilitation of 4,881 members of the NDFB, saying the Centre provided 90% of this amount.

At the meeting, Shah also announced that “a prominent road in Delhi” would be named after “Bodofa” Upendra Nath Brahma Marg, a former ABSU president who was one of the tallest leaders from the community. Shah also said his bust would be unveiled in Delhi in the first week of April.