The Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR), an autonomous administrative authority in Assam’s Bodo tribal areas, has demanded its inclusion in Article 280 of the Constitution to get more funds for the development of some remote districts that suffered decades of insurgency and are now on a peace path.
Pramod Boro, the chief executive member of the BTR’s governing body Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), told a group of journalists here that he was “trying to sustain” the peace that was achieved after four decades of instability, fear, uncertainty and threat. Monday marked the successful five years of the tripartite Bodo Peace Accord inked between the Bodo groups, the Centre and the Assam government on January 27, 2020.