News Desk:

Following the Pulwama incident of Feb 14 where more than 45 CRPF jawans were killed, chief of Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) Hagrama Mohilary has said that if need be, he is ready to send hundreds of Bodo youths from the Bodoland Territorial Area districts for the service of the country and fight in Jammu and Kashmir.

“We have many Bodo boys who are willing to fight for the youth. If needed we can send our Bodo youths, over 300-500 of them, to fight in Jammu and Kashmir against the perpetrators. If the government of India allows, we can send the Bodo youths from BTAD, Mohilary said after visiting the family members of Maneswar Basumatary, who attained martyrdom in terrorist attack in Pulwama in Jammu & Kashmir on February 14 last.

Basumatary, a native of Tamulpur’s Kalbari village in Baksa district was among the 44 jawans martyred in a terror attack on a CRPF convoy in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir.

Condemning the terror attack on the CRPF jawans, Mohilary said the Central government should take necessary steps to counter terrorism through offence instead of being defensive.

It may be mentioned that Assam’s Maneswar Basumatary who was one among more than 40 CRPF jawans martyred at the Pulwama attack on Feb 14 was on Saturday cremated with full state honours in his native village of Kolbari in Assam’s Baksa district. The last rites of the 98th CRPF battalion jawan were performed at around 9:05 pm.