Historic Milestone In Assam: Kokrajhar Holds 1st Assembly Session

way2barak February 18: The MLAs in Assam travelled nearly 200kms in buses from Guwahati as the state Assembly on Monday began its “historic” first session in Kokrajhar, once a nerve centre of insurgency and movement for a separate Bodoland state.

Today is a historic day as no CM or top leaders could come to Kokrajhar without any concern about insurgency and conflict earlier. Today there is absolute peace and Kokrajhar, which once used to be a centre of insurgency and movement for a separate state, has become a symbol of peace and development,” CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said while addressing the budget session that began on Monday. “Today, Bodoland has two medical colleges, two universities, a state-of-the-art stadium is coming up,” he said.

Sarma said the Bodoland Accord not only ushered an atmosphere of peace and development but was also gradually dispelling the sense of animosity and trust deficit between the Bodo community and the non-Bodo population.

The session is seen as BJP government’s attempt to project developments in BTR ahead of the BTC elections later this year and the Assembly elections slated in 2026. The Opposition MLAs, however, claimed that the government failed to implement all the clauses of the Bodoland Accord signed in 2020.