BTR Accord signed in haste, has compromised on demand for Bodoland: Bwiswmuthiary

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Kokrajhar: Lashing out at some signatories of the recently signed Bodo Peace Accord, particularly targeting the former president of the ABSU, Promod Boro, former Lok Sabha MP SK Bwiswmuthiary on Thursday said the BTR accord could not at all be the comprehensive and final accord.

At a press conference held at Kokrajhar Press Club, Bwiswmuthiary said the BTR Accord was the Himalayan blunder committed by Promod Boro and his team as the accord was made in a hasty manner keeping the Bodo intellectuals and civil society in the dark over finalization of modalities. He said the community would not surrender its legitimate demand of statehood as Boro has done for his hidden motives.

Bwiswmuthiary said the Bodo civil society felt humiliated and insulted by the government for not being consulted before signing the third Accord. He said the signing of the third Accord in a haste without taking the Bodo civil society into confidence was a part of the long-drawn sophisticated political conspiracy of the government to guillotine the demand for a separate state of Bodoland once for all.

After the signing of the 2nd Bodo Accord on the concept of BTC or BTAD under the provisions of the 6th Schedule to the Constitution on February 10, 2003, there was no emergency to sign another interim accord under the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution, he said and added that abortive attempts would be made to gerrymander the geo-political boundary of the present BTC with the objective of poisoning the future prospect and the concept of a separate state of Bodoland.

A conveners’ committee was formed on February 25 with Bwiswmuthiary as the chief convener and Dr. Shekar Brahma, retired Registrar of Bodoland University, as convener to organize a special convention on March 8 in Kokrajhar to review the BTR accord inviting all former ABSU leaders and intellectuals. He demanded that the Government of India should restart fresh dialogue for creation of Bodoland state instead of BTR that had no constitutional amendment. He said the conveners’ committee formed on February 25 at Kadamtala in Kokrajhar was aimed at discussing the new accord which, according to him, was a deadly and poisonous accord. He also said that the prime subject was the necessity of reviewing the latest Bodo Accord and also the overall situation arising out of the signing of the Accord by compromising on the long-pending legitimate demand of separate state of Bodoland.

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