MP Naba Kumar Sarania against division of Assam but supports the creation of separate Kamatapur State

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Kokrajhar: Naba Kumar Sarania who won from Kokrajhar (ST) HPC for the second time on Thursday said before the media persons at Kokrajhar that he was against further division of Assam but by contradicting itself he said that he has support on the creation of separate Kamatapur State.

Talking to reporters at Kokrajhar Press Club on Friday, Sarania said his victory for second time was for the people of different communities of BTC region. He said the ethnic communities who have been being deprived by the Bodos voted for him. He assured that he will be giving due privileges and justice to all communities.

In course of his reply, Sarania said the voice of separate State of Bodoland came to near end as the BPF has also given up the issue of Bodoland statehood movement. He also said he raised voice against the creation of separate Bodoland state and will raise the same voice as there had been lot of shortcomings in BTC itself.

The MP said he was always against the further division of Assam and will oppose the move of separate State of Bodoland. When media persons asked whether he will support the Kamatapur State he said that he will definitely support it. When again asked as to why he was contradicting his stand on a division of Assam, Sarania said he supported the Kamatapur State as there will be no discrimination against any community as BTC if Kamatapur is created. He also said that every community will have equal rights and privileges.

The media persons of Kokrajhar reminded him that the BTC region was left with utter neglect. But the region has witnessed lot of change and rapid development everywhere right from road communications to higher education after the council was formed and all communities were benefitted. Sarania said there were some problems of OBoro communities and they were being neglected. He also said after his winning from Kokrajhar, things will change in 2020, that means the so-called OBoro group will overcome BTC administration by winning in majority seat in the council election next year.

When asked as to why he has set his eyes to take over BTC administration who otherwise has been demanding exclusion of villages and scrapping of BTC accord constantly, Sarania got mixed up for a while and said he opposed the creation of Bodoland State that did not mean to stay away from participating in council election. He was also asked as to why he had been against the issues of tribal communities despite he is representing from ST reserved seat for ST communities, he said he will cooperate for addressing problems of ST communities in the days to come.

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