Overview

• Himanta Biswa Sarma launched “Mission BTR” on the fifth anniversary of the 2020 Bodo Accord to prioritize infrastructure expansion and welfare schemes across the region.
• The chief minister asserted that the Congress Party has lost its foothold in Bodoland, framing it as irrelevant to local development prospects.
• Sarma urged the BJP, Asom Gana Parishad and UPPL to coordinate candidacies and campaign strategies with the NDA to secure a collective victory in the September BTC elections.
• Government notifications will be translated into Bodo across 13 districts and multilingual publications have been released to strengthen linguistic inclusion.
• He cautioned indigenous communities about declining fertility rates and appealed for cultural cohesion among Bodoland’s 26 ethnic groups to sustain demographic balance.