Shah said that nearly 82 per cent of the Bodo peace deal signed five years ago has already been fulfilled and the rest will be completed in the next two years
Guwahati:Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday said that the Congress mocked the BJP government for signing the Bodo accord, but it brought peace and development in the Bodoland territorial area.
Addressing the 57th annual conference of the All Bodo Students Union (ABSU) in Assam’s Kokrajhar, Shah said that nearly 82 per cent of the Bodo peace deal signed five years ago has already been fulfilled and the rest will be completed in the next two years.
The Union home minister said: “When we had signed the Bodo peace accord on January 27, 2020, leaders from the Congress laughed at me, saying that peace isn’t possible in Bodoland. But now, 82 per cent of the accord’s clauses have been fulfilled. Now peace and development are prevailing in western Assam.”
“I assure you that 100 per cent clauses of the accord will be implemented in the next two years under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Once that happens, it will lead to lasting peace in the region,” he said.
Asserting that Bodo youth now carry the tricolour in their hands instead of guns and this has been possible due to the signing of the peace accord, Shah also exhorted the Bodo youth to start preparing for the 2036 Olympics, which is proposed to be held in Ahmedabad.
The Union home minister also lauded the Bodo students union and said, “This has been possible due to the role of the ABSU, a signatory of the accord, in bringing peace to the region.”
The Bodo peace accord was signed with four factions of the terror outfit the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), along with the ABSU and the United Bodo Peoples’ Organisation (UBPO). The groups that had been seeking a separate Bodoland state for decades gave up that demand and joined the mainstream by shunning the path of violence.
The Union home minister said that in the past three years `227 crores have been released to ensure the rehabilitation of 4,881 NDFB cadres who gave up arms and returned to the mainstream following the peace accord.
Shah pointed out: “Since the government under Modi Ji was formed, nine peace deals have been signed with terror outfits in Assam and this has resulted in 10,000 youths giving up arms and returning to the mainstream.”
The Union minister also announced that the Centre has decided to name a major road in Delhi after social activist and former ABSU president Upendra Nath Brahma, who is fondly called Bodofa (father of Bodos). Mr Shah said that the road will be renamed at an event in the first week of April and a bust of the late leader and a plaque will be placed there.
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and chief executive member of Bodoland Territorial Area Pramod Boro also addressed the huge gathering.
