Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani, who as home minister in 2002 had signed the Bodo Accord leading to the formation of Bodoland Territorial Council, will be visiting violence-hit Western Assam on Monday.
Informing that Mr Advani will be meeting different sections of the people, including Bodo leaders at Kokrajhar, the secretary of BJP, Northeast, P. Chandrashekhar told this newspaper that Mr Advani will be visiting some of the relief camps of violence-hit areas. Mr Advani is also scheduled to meet some prominent citizens of the state in the wake of Kokrajhar violence in Guwahati on Monday.
Apart from addressing a meeting of party workers on Tuesday, he will be spending his Monday in Kokrajhar, he said.
CPI(M) leader Basudev Acharya, who visited the violence-hit areas, told mediapersons on Sunday that the state government has failed in discharging its duty. He said that both the Bodos and the Muslims have been badly affected in this violence.
Meanwhile, the team of all parties of Assam Legislative Assembly, which had visited the trouble-torn BTC, submitted a report besides making some recommendations to handle the situation.
“We submitted a report to the state government and recommended some points for action,” Asom Gana Parishad MLA Keshab Mahanta said.
A team member said, “We came across a number of instances from victims against government officials whose behaviour was biased and derogatory towards some community. We have requested chief minister to shift them immediately.”