Bodoland News

The state government has given shoot-at-sight orders in Karbi, Assam, where locals have resorted to violence in support of a separate Bodoland. Agitation for a separate state is on rise in Assam despite CM Tarun Gogoi having said that there will be no bifurcation. Meanwhile, GJM leaders met Sharad Pawar on Saturday to discuss their demand for a separate Gorkhaland.

Fuelled by the Telangana announcement, protests by pro-statehood activists from the north-eastern tribes Bodos, Koch-Rajbongshis, Karbis, Dimasas and Garos kept the entire region cut off from the rest of India on Monday, by crippling train services and blocking highways. A Bodo outfit has also threatened to start a 1000-hour strike after Eid unless the Centre invites Bodo leaders for talks.