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ABSU revives separate State demand

By Staff reporter

GUWAHATI, June 3 � The All Bodo Students� Union (ABSU) today revived the demand for the creation of a separate state of Bodoland and submitted a memorandum to the Union Home Minister, P Chidambaram in this regard. The ABSU also demanded intervention of the Government of India for protection of life and property of the common people of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) area.

Talking to The Assam Tribune, the president of the ABSU, Promode Boro said that a seven member delegation of the students� body today met the Union Home Minister to put forward its demands. He said that with the Government of Assam adopting a discriminatory attitude towards the BTC area, only creation of a separate state would be able to solve the problems facing the people of the area.

The ABSU president alleged that though law and order is a state subject, the Assam Government totally failed to protect life and property of the people living in the BTC area. He said that the Bodo accord is yet to be fully implemented because of lack of sincerity of the State Government and the Bodo people living in Karbi Anglong are yet to get the status of ST hills as per the provisions of the accord. He said that under the present circumstances, only creation of a separate state would be able to protect the identity of the Bodo people.

Boro said that the Assam Government totally failed to deal with law and order situation in BTC area and more than 140 innocent persons were killed in the area in the last couple of years. He demanded that the Centre should intervene immediately and take steps for seizing the illegal weapons. He said that the Government of India should take immediate steps for finding permanent solution to the problem of militancy, which has been haunting the BTC area for years.

The ABSU demanded that the Government of India should immediate constitute a language promotion bureau for the development of Bodo language and a full fledged centre of the Doordarshan should be set up in Kokrajhar.

The ABSU, in its memorandum to the Union Home Minister, also demanded that immediate steps should be taken to improve the academic scenario in the BTC area and a Central university, a medical college, agriculture college, branches of the Indian Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Management should be set up in the area. The ABSU demanded steps for industrial development of the area and said that the potential for setting up of agro based industries and developing tourism as an industry were not tapped so far.

The ABSU president said that the Union Home Minister assured the delegation that the MHA would look into the demands of the students� body.

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