March 16, 2025: The Governor of Manipur, Ajay Kumar Bhalla, who is in Guwahati to attend a crucial meeting of North East CMs with Union Home Minister Amit Shah, is likely to review and assess the situation in Manipur. The crucial meeting, chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, aims to review the implementation of Bharatiya Niyay Smahita (BNS) in the region.
Earlier, the Union Home Minister, while addressing the 57th annual conference of the All Bodo Students’ Union (ABSU) in Kokrajhar, Assam, also informed that the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) peace agreement, signed on January 27, 2020, will be fully implemented within two years.
The Union Home Minister said, “The peace agreement was signed on January 27, 2020, and the opposition was mocking it. However, today, the central government and the Assam government have fulfilled 82 per cent of the conditions of this agreement.” He further stated that under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi, the Government of India will implement 100 per cent of this agreement in the next two years. After that, there will be lasting peace in the BTR.”
The Union Home Minister, according to PIB reports, also informed that under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi, the Government of India and the Assam Government have allocated ₹1,500 crore for the development of Bodoland, even though the population of the region is only 3.5 million. He also mentioned that during the tenure of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Bodo language was included in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution. Additionally, the BTR region was expanded by including the Sonitpur and Biswanath districts.
The Union Home and Cooperation Minister, Amit Shah, said that hundreds of youths have been brought into the mainstream of society. Many weapons were surrendered, and in the last three years, ₹287 crore has been spent on the rehabilitation of 4,881 members of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) in Assam, with 90 per cent of this amount provided by the Modi government.
