On July 30, Assam Chief Minister (CM) Himanta Biswa Sarma announced that ‘the non-heinous crime cases against the surrendered National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants will be disposed of soon and all NIA cases will be transferred to the police to make a congenial peace’, reports Northeast Now. Speaking at the programme at Goibari in Basugaon of Chirang District of Assam to pay homage to former All Bodo Students Union (ABSU) president Jwhwlao Swmbla Basumatary, who was assassinated in 1996, CM Sarma stated that the Assam government will spend INR 160, 00, 00,000 to rehabilitate the surrendered militants of all the factions of the now-disbanded NDFB and also pay an ex-gratia of INR 5, 00,000 to the next of the kin of those killed in the Bodoland movement. He further said that the disgruntled groups, which so far kept themselves away from the peace process, now have started coming back to the mainstream to help the government in establishing permanent peace in the Bodo areas. On January 27, 2020, All Bodo Students Union (ABSU), United Bodo People's Organisation (UBPO) and all the factions of the NDFB signed a peace accord with the government, providing political and economic bonanza to the Bodoland region sans a separate state or Union territory. In accordance with the peace accord, criminal cases against the members of NDFB for non-heinous crimes were slated to be withdrawn by the Assam government.