Centre signs pact with eight armed tribal groups in Assam
The groups that signed the agreement are Birsa Commando Force (BCF), Adivasi People’s Army (APA), All Adivasi National Liberation Army (AANLA), Adivasi Cobra Military of Assam (ACMA) and Santhali Tiger Force (STF).
Amit Shah and Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma meet leaders of tribal groups in New Delhi on Thursday. (Express photo by Anil Sharma) The Centre and Assam Government on Thursday signed a tripartite agreement with eight armed tribal groups in Assam to bring them into the mainstream and give them political and economic rights.
The groups that signed the agreement are Birsa Commando Force (BCF), Adivasi People’s Army (APA), All Adivasi National Liberation Army (AANLA), Adivasi Cobra Military of Assam (ACMA) and Santhali Tiger Force (STF).
The remaining three outfits are splinter groups of BCF, AANLA, and ACMA.
Addressing representatives of the tribal groups afterward, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said: “We will sincerely follow everything in our agreement. The Narendra Modi government has a record that almost 93 per cent of all promises made in various agreements have been implemented. All these agreements have established peace in various regions of the Northeast.”
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