Forwarding a letter from todays AT....and Ulfa still dreams about "Swadhin" Oxom when all its constituent peoples have their own seperate plans.
http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=feb0907/at05 Bodo state in 2 decades, says BTC chief From Ramen Kalita KUMARIKATA (Nalbari), Feb 8 Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) chief Hagrama Mahiliary today asserted that the BTAD area must get a separate state of Bodoland within the next two decades and for that the infrastructure of the BTC areas will have to be developed in a peaceful atmosphere. He said that the BLT leadership in its talk with the Central Government came down from its separate state demand only due to lack of infrastructure needs for a state. Addressing the open session of the Bodoland Peoples Progressive Fronts (BPPF) Tamulpur district conference at Kumarikata, the BTC chief expressed the hope that the people of BTAD will succeed reaching the goal of a separate State without resorting to any agitational movement. The state and Central governments will be compelled to allow a separate state when we achieve our development, Mahilary added. He urged all sections of the people to join hands to build a model BTC with all-round development. Once a hardcore militant, Mahilary called upon all section of the people to maintain peace and tranquility for the development of BTC. Later, talking to The Assam Tribune Mahilary said that in order to establish peace in the region the BTC leadership has taken the initiative to facilitate talks between Central government and NDFB at the earliest. He stated that the NDFB leadership will submit the list of demands by March as required by the Central government. Then there will be no hurdle in the talks between NDFB and Centre. Mahilary further denied that there was any conflict between Bodos and Sarania-Kacharis over the ST status issue, stating that there was no community in the name of Sarania. The open session inaugurated by Emanual Mosahary, executive member of Education department of BTC was addressed by PHE Minister Rihan Daimary and BPPF general secretary Biswajit Daimary. In his address Biswajit Daimary said that after delimitation the BTAD will get 14 seats of MLAs and two seats of MPs which will speed up the development activities in BTC areas. ____________________________________________________________________________________ We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/265
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