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ABSU rally at Amingaon, ignored by Media in Assam

March 3, 2012 By 4 Comments

ABSU – All Bodo Students Union, had taken out rally of around 15000 Bodo people hat at the sprawling parade ground at Amingaon in outskirt of Guwahati on the occasion of 25th anniversary of Bodoland Statehood movement. The separate state of Bodoland was started in 1987, led by late Upen Brahma.

Interestingly, not many news papers from Assam or TV media had reported the massive rally by ABSU supporters from Bodo tribe which form the largest tribal population in Assam. Except Telegraph and Sentinel, no other news paper has published the news with any prominence.
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Bodo Organisations National Seminar on Smaller States in New Delhi

December 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment

ABSU ( All Bodo Students Union) had organised a national seminar at Club of India on Tuesday, 6th December 2011 in New Delhi with the topic ‘Issues of separate States in India: Problems and perspectives’. Many prominent personalities took part in the seminar which included former Speaker P A Sangma, Rajya Sabha MP Bedabrata Biswas, Chavan Garg, Chandan Mitra, UG Brahma among others.

Leaders of various Bodo organisations have supported the creation of smaller states while noted journalist Kuldeep Nayyar was the lone voice to oppose creation of Bodoland in Assam.
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ABSU renews demand for separate state: Threatens economic blockade

November 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment

ABSU ( All Bodo Students Union), the powerful student organisation of the Bodos in Assam, which spearheaded agitation for separate Bodoland in the 1990s, has again renewed the demand as if taking cue from UP CM Mayawati’s recent proposal of division of UP into four smaller states!

The separate Bodoland had gained momentum after the Telenagana episode where union Minister had publicly announced that Telengana state would would created soon.
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No more division of Assam : Tarun Gogoi

September 3, 2011 By 2 Comments

Assam Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi had reiterated that Assam will not be divided any more. “We are for a considerate response to the issues raised by the militant outfits but no further division of the State is possible to accommodate their demands. We have made this very clear,” Gogoi said at a press conference in Guwahati recently.

This statement is significant since recently NDFB pro-talk group held a demonstration in Kokrajhar, demanding creation of Bodoland which would include present BTAD areas and sent a memorandum to president of India.
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BPF not averse for alliance with AGP or BJP

April 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment

In an interesting development, the Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) leader and BTC (Bodoland Territorial Council) Chief Hagrama Mohilari has announced that they are not averse to form alliance with AGP, BJP or AIUDF.

“Let me make it very clear to the Congress that we have the option of supporting the AGP, BJP and the AIUDF and form an alternative government next month,” BPF chief Hagrama Mohilary told IANS, as reported in Assam Tribune.
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ULFA threatens Congress in Assam

February 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment

In a surprising development, it is reported that ULFA’s anti-talk faction led by self styled Commander In Chief Paresh Barua had threatened Congress to launch armed strike against it. According to Times Of India, ULFA mailed them warning people to stay away from Congress meetings ahead of Assam assembly election due in April 2011.

ULFA had accused Congress of trying to weaken ULFA by splitting it. ULFA will attack Congress with arms and they are requesting people not to attend their meetings as they do not want to harm.
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Opposition of Bodoland one of the main demands : ULFA

February 15, 2011 By 2 Comments

Ending month-long speculation about demands to be raised by ULFA (United Liberation Front Of Asom) during its much hyped talks with Indian government, ULFA has come out with few demands like special status for Assam. Another important and significant demand by ULFA is opposing the separate Bodoland Demand by ABSU ( All Bodo Student Union).

Sashadhar Chowdhury, the outfit’s ‘foreign secretary’, in an interview to CNN-IBN news channel, said the group’s ‘basic demand will be to overhaul the constitution because that is the sovereign instrument with which a country is governed’.
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ABSU to intensify statehood demand

February 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Powerful Bodo Student organization ABSU ( All Bodo Student Union) has pledged to ntensify the Statehood demand through the democratic process, according to Promod Boro, president of ABSU. In the open session of the conference recently, eight important resolutions were unanimously adopted i the delegates’ session on the concluding day of the 43rd annual conference of ABSU in Kokrajhar, Assam.

The Statehood demand has figured as most urgent including the demand to the Government to resolve the Bodo problem through talks with pro-talk and anti-talk factions of NDFB in the similar manner as that being seen in case of the ULFA for lasting peace in the area.
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