By Preetam BC (PNI)
Kokrajhar: The All Bodo Students Union (ABSU) and its movement group like the National Democratic Front of Boroland –Progressive (NDFB-P) and People’s Joint Action Committee for Boroland Movement(PJACBM) today carried out a rally in Kokrajhar on their various demands including to resolve the long pending demand of Bodoland 
Over 30,000 people participated in the rally which started from Jankrithai field and marched through the street of Kokrajhar bringing the traffic to a halt for nearly 2 hours.
Joint Movement Group criticized the double standard attitude of the Government of India towards resolving the long-standing demand for creation of Bodoland state.
“The demand for creating Bodoland state in the northern part of the Brahmaputra curving out from Assam as per the Article 2 & 3 of constitution of India has been going on for the last fifty-two years. The state and the union governments though having series of dialogue with the Bodo leadership is apparently seemed to be holding dialogue only for the ‘sake of mere discussion’ like game of duck and drake just to dupe the counter parts without having any political willingness, pragmatic step and clear-cut policy-decision to resolve the issue, ABSU president Pramod Boro said.
“Many a times we have tried our level best to remind the BJP leadership about their verbal as well as written commitment (Election Manifesto of 2014) that they would resolve the Bodo problem immediately if they would be voted to form government in Delhi. We are surprised that the BJP government has totally forgotten their promises which we therefore condemn this act of their treachery, he added.
The ABSU president said the BJP leadership instead of fulfilling the Bodoland State has heavily bull-dodged on the existing ST communities of Assam by bringing an unexpected bill to grant ST status to 6 communities. “The Bill is a serious threat to the very existence of the existing ST communities of Assam and if the Bill is passed and made an Act 
The student leader stated that despite of being turned down for as many as 8 times by the RGI as well as the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes not having the criteria to fulfil for being recognised as ST the BJP government has adamantly all set to grant ST to those communities. “The ulterior motive behind the bill is purely political motivated, i. e. to harvest the 1.5 crore votes but not the intention of socio-economic development of the concerned communities. How can the advanced communities with large number of population and the migrant people who do not fulfil the criteria for being ST be granted ST status? The bill is completely unconstitutional, illegal, discriminatory and unjustified. The organizations of the existing ST will keep to continue its strong protest with tooth and nail against this draconian bill, he said.
The Joint Movement Group threatened to take series of vigorous agitational programs in the days to come to protest against the Lackadaisical and double standard attitude of the Government.
Leaders from the Gorkha Students Union(AGSU), NDFB-P, PJACBM, UPPL and other participated in the rally.