Agreement
First Bodo Accord, 1993
An initial autonomy settlement collapsed over a territorial dispute, leading to renewed conflict.
What happened
The All Bodo Students' Union (ABSU), founded in 1967, launched a mass agitation on 2 March 1987 demanding a separate state of Bodoland.[1]
On 20 February 1993, the Indian central government, the Assam state government, and ABSU leadership signed the first Bodo Accord, creating the Bodoland Autonomous Council; the accord's territorial demarcation excluded 515 contested villages, and ABSU subsequently rejected the arrangement, withdrew from the agreement, and renewed its statehood demand amid large-scale violence.[2]
Sources for this page
Each number marks a specific claim. Notes give the source, its locator and how it relates to the claim.
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Claim: The All Bodo Students' Union (ABSU), founded in 1967, launched a mass agitation on 2 March 1987 under the leadership of Upendra Nath Brahma, demanding a separate state of Bodoland to be carved out of Assam.
- Bodoland Statehood Movement (Drishti IAS) link, Founding and 1987 agitation section. Source record
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Claim: On 20 February 1993, the Indian central government, the Assam state government, and ABSU/Bodo People's Action Committee leadership signed the first Bodo Accord, creating the Bodoland Autonomous Council (BAC); the accord's territorial demarcation excluded 515 villages that ABSU and its allies considered contentious, and ABSU subsequently rejected the BAC's territorial domain, withdrew from the agreement, and renewed its demand for a separate state, amid large-scale violence.
- Memorandum of Settlement (Bodo Accord) (Peace Accords Matrix, University of Notre Dame) link, Accord terms and territorial dispute sections. Source record