BJP's Return Showed Assam Rejected 'Andolan' And 'Atankwad': Amit Shah

Amit Shah promised that by 2024, all the clauses of the Bodoland Accord that were signed in January last year will be implemented.

Bundling protests ("andolan") and terrorism ("atankwad") together once again, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said the victory of the BJP in the March-April election in Assam indicated the people of the state had "chosen development". "Thousands of youths of Assam have lost their lives agitating, but Assam got nothing. My analysis of our party forming the government for the second term is that Assam has given a mandate against Andolan (agitation) and Atankwad (terrorism) and chose the path of development," Mr Shah said in Guwahati on Sunday at a public event on the last day of his two-day visit to the northeast - his first after the party returned to power in Assam in May. He promised that by 2024, before the end of the second term of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government at the centre, all the clauses of the Bodoland Accord that were signed in January last year will be implemented. He also said that the peace process with militants in Karbi Anglong of the southern hills of Assam is also about to draw to an end.