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The anti-talks faction of banned National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), a Bodo tribe militant group in Assam has declared a unilateral truce with the government of India, in response to the government's call for negotiations.
The NDFB faction led by its chairman Ranjan Daimary, who is now in jail, has already sent a letter to the Assam government conveying its decision to declare unilateral truce which has been reciprocated positively by the government after weighing pros and cons, according to a security source.
The other faction of the NDFB led by Dhiren Bodo has been in truce with the government for several years now and engaged in a peace process with the government. The NDFB has been fighting for a sovereign Bodoland.
Meanwhile, the Assam government has in principle decided not to oppose the bail petition of the NDFB chairman Ranjan Daimary to allow the faction led by him to negotiate.
The Bodo National Convention (BNC), a conglomerate of all frontline Bodo political and social organizations has been asking for leniency from the state government to start a process of negotiation with the anti-talks faction of the NDFB led by Daimary for finding a solution to the vexed Bodo insurgency problem.
The NDFB anti-talks faction has been made the prime accused by the CBI behind the October 30, 2008 serial blasts in Assam in which over 90 persons were killed and over 400 injured. Since then the security forces has been very harsh on the outfit whose cadres were being killed in encounters on regular interval. The outfit has killed a large number of innocent non-Bodo civilians in Assam over the year to scare way non-Bodo people from Bodo dominated areas of Assam.