PM to address rally in Assam on Feb 7; 1st visit since passage of CAA

Prime Minister Modi will make his first trip to Assam on February 7 to address a rally after the passage of the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the signing of a peace pact with the NDFB - a Bodo insurgent group.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a rally in Bodo-dominated Kokrajhar town of Assam on February 7.

This will be prime minister's first visit to the Northeast since it witnessed several anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protests in which three people were killed.

Prime Minister Modi will visit Assam on February 7 and address a rally in Kokrajhar, a government official said.

The visit also 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 the surrender of over 1,500 militants of the major insurgent group National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB).

A summit meeting between 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.