The negotiations that followed the ceasefire pact got stalled on two major counts: the dispute over boundary demarcation of the proposed new administrative set-up, and the number of seats that would be given to non-Bodos in the local legislature. Says U.G. Brahma, MP and advisor to the All Bodo Students Union (ABSU): "The delay by both the Centre and the Assam government in finalising the terms of the accord is dangerous."The current impasse has dangerous portents for the insurgency-ridden Northeast. For, Bodoland may be on the boil once again.
