Guwahati, 13 March (H.S.):

Addressing a rally in Kokrajhar virtually on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused Congress of decades-long betrayal toward Bodoland through false promises and paper accords, contrasting it with BJP-NDA's honest pursuit of lasting peace and development.Weather grounded his Delhi-Kokrajhar flight in Guwahati; he apologized from there.

PM Modi credited public mandate ousting Congress for enabling concrete steps—the 2020 Bodo Accord uniting all factions for the first time. Decades of violence haunting Kokrajhar's hills have yielded to peace and progress.He inaugurated over ₹4,500 crore projects, including ₹1,100 crore for Bodoland roads.

Promises fulfilled: Bodo as associate official language, ₹1,500 crore package, Kokrajhar Medical College operational.

Paying homage to Bodo icons, PM Modi lauded their language-culture preservation, witnessed recently in Guwahati. He branded Congress a shop of lies, unlike BJP-NDA's delivery—ushering Assam's new peace-development chapter.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Jun Sarkar