Police said the protestors were dispersed and the situation was soon brought under the control.The Assam cabinet on Saturday approved a proposal to merge four districts, including Hojai, with those from which these districts were carved out.
The spontaneous joy and enthusiasm among the Bodo people, notwithstanding the recent Bodo Peace Accord signed on 27 January 2020, needs to be interrogated in the context of “fractured identity” of Bodos and a perennial trend of “demographic challenge” that the history of the area is embedded in. Moreover, the changing contours of electoral politics in the wake of the Bharatiya
The displaced people were labelled "illegal immigrants" and "encroachers" when the government evicted them to make way for the Gorukhuti agricultural project. Promises to relocate them have not been fulfilled.