New Delhi, Feb. 3 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a rally in Bodo-dominated Kokrajhar town of Assam on February 7, a government official said.
This will be the prime minister’s first visit to the Northeast since it witnessed several anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protests in which three people were killed.
The visit comes a week after the central government signed a peace pact with several Bodo militant groups and a student body.
The signing of the Bodo agreement led to surrender of over 1,500 militants of the major insurgent group National Democratic Front of Boroland.
A summit meeting between Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe, scheduled to be held in Guwahati in December, was also cancelled due to the anti-CAA protests.
Modi was also invited for the inauguration of the recently-concluded ‘Khelo India’ games in Guwahati but he did not attend it.
