“We brought thousands of youngsters into the mainstream. In the last three years, Rs 287 crore was spent on the rehabilitation of 4,881 cadres of the NDFB (erstwhile insurgent group National Democratic Front of Bodoland, with whom the third Bodo peace accord was signed). Ninety per cent of the funds came from the Centre,” he said.He praised Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma for employing 400 Bodo youths in a commando battalion. According to Shah, a total of nine peace accords have been signed in Assam, bringing over 10,000 youths into the mainstream under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.“Modi Ji freed the entire Northeast from terrorism, agitation, bandhs, blockades, and violence,” he said.Shah also announced that the Centre would name a major road in Delhi after Bodofa Upendranath Brahma. “A bust of the Bodofa (Father of the Bodos) will be unveiled there in the first week of April in the presence of all your leaders and the Assam CM,” he added.
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