{"id":63984,"date":"2013-08-05T21:24:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T01:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/?p=19731"},"modified":"2013-08-05T21:24:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T01:24:40","slug":"demand-for-separate-bodoland-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2013\/08\/05\/demand-for-separate-bodoland-intensifies\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand for separate Bodoland intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/KARBI-STUDENT-DHARNA-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19733\" alt=\"KARBI STUDENT DHARNA (4)\" src=\"http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/KARBI-STUDENT-DHARNA-4-300x165.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Delhi, Aug. 5 (ANI): Days after the UPA Government gave its nod for the formation of Telangana, the Bodoland Members of Parliament staged a protest outside the Parliament here on Monday for creation of a separate state.<br \/>\n\u201cToday we have deiced to stage a demonstration in front of the main gate of the Parliament House to raise the long pending demand for the creation of a separate state of Bodoland so that the people of the whole nation may come to know about the Bodoland. Bodoland demand is a very very ancient demand, very genuine demand, much decade old demand. It is very must justified, legitimate and democratic right of the Bodo people of Assam,\u201d said Bodo People Front (BPF) MP Sansuma Khunguur Bwiswmuthiary.<br \/>\nBwiswmuthiary further said if the UPA Government headed by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh can give its nod for the formation of Telangana then it should also take a decision to create a separate state of Bodoland.<br \/>\n\u201cWe want similar kind of justice, equitable kind of justice. We would like to urge upon the Government of India to take appropriate positive political decision to create a separate state of Bodoland carving out of the present state of Assam in order to help ensure survival and existence of the Bodo people,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nAnother Bodo People Front MP Biswajit Daimary said that they would raise their demands for a separate state of Bodoland in the Parliament.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are staging a protest here and want to raise this issue in the Parliament.<br \/>\nThey are giving Telangana then should also give us Bodoland. Why they are showing the sympathy to Telangana people and not us,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nThe Bodo People Front has also sent a notice to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar to raise the issue in the House.<br \/>\nThousands of people of the Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Districts (BTAD) gathered in Assam\u2019s Kokrajhar town yesterday, and slogans \u2018No Bodoland, No rest\u2019 and \u2018Divide Assam 50:50\u2019.<br \/>\nThe All Bodo Students\u2019 Union (ABSU) has called for a 60-hour shutdown in Assam to press its demand for a separate Bodoland state. The trains services to the northeast in Bodoland have been disrupted due to the shutdown called for separate statehood. Assam CM Tarun Gogoi has said that people have the right to agitate, but no one can take laws into their hand.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/demand-for-separate-bodoland-intensifies\/\">http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/demand-for-separate-bodoland-intensifies\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Aug. 5 (ANI): Days after the UPA Government gave its nod for the formation of Telangana, the Bodoland Members of Parliament staged a protest outside the Parliament here on Monday for creation of a separate state. \u201cToday we have deiced to stage a demonstration in front of the main gate of the Parliament [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[985,4],"tags":[986,990,987],"class_list":["post-63984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manipur-mail","category-news","tag-manipur-mail-2","tag-national","tag-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}