NEW DELHI (PTI): Two Bodo organizations on Oct.20 threatened to launch a “vigorous mass movement” to press for a separate state of “Bodoland” in the north cast.
“We will leave no stone unturned and Assam will be once again burning. The entire responsibility of the consequences of our struggle will be of the Center and the state government” All Bodo Students Union (ABSU) President S.K.Bwiswmultiary told reporters here.
Stating that their agitation was suspended in August 1989 and resumed in June this year after state chief minister Hiteshwar Saikia “retracted from his assurances” Bwiswmutiary expressed concern over what he called “negative stand of the Center” as made clear by recent statement of Prime Minister P.V.Narasimha Rao who had opposed the idea of creating smaller states.
Charging the Center and the Assam government with “intentionally delaying resolution of the Bodoland issue for political gains the ABSU chief said anything short of a separate state or a political arrangement with in Assam will not be accepted by us.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 30, 1992
