A rally by leading Bodo organisations at Kokrajhar in Assam on Monday demanded a separate Bodoland and blamed the BJP-led government at the Centre for not keeping its promise on Statehood.
The All Bodo Students Union, the National Democratic Front of Bodoland Progressive and Peoples Joint Action Committee for Bodoland Movement participated in the rally, sources said.
ABSU president Promod Boro said that the BJP-led government at the Centre had promised that their problems would be solved. “It is now more than four and a half years but the government is yet to take any policy decision on the issue.”
The BJP had assured to fulfil the demand for separate State before the 2014 Lok Sabha and 2016 Assembly elections, “but they forgot their commitments”, he said.
“We believe in the Indian Constitution and are not demanding anything against it. We want a separate Bodo State which can solve our problems,” the ABSU leader said.
The united Bodo movement seeks a national policy on the issue of settlement of Bodoland State, to expedite the process of dialogue at the political level, ensure the political rights of the Bodos living outside the proposed Bodoland area and to grant ST Hills status to the Bodos living in Assam, sources said.