Prime Minister Narendra Modi will go to Kokrajhar on Friday to go to an event to commemorate the signing of the Bodo Accord
Mr. Modi therefore will be able to do what a previous Prime Minister from the BJP, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, could not. The second Bodo Accord, signed in 2003, resulted in the creation of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), however Vajpayee, considered its catalyst, could not participate in the event to mark its official signing that year. The first accord, signed in 1993, was thought about toothless.
Mr. Modi’s check out will be the first to Assam since protests appeared versus the Citizenship (Amendment) Act last year. His summit with his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, in December in Guwahati was cancelled since of the protests, while he avoided the inaugural programme of the Khelo India Youth Games in January, notwithstanding an