Kokrajhar, March 16 -- Pramod Boro, Chief Executive Member of Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), on Sunday emphasised that peace was the way to achieve development and progress.

Talking about their decision to remove gun culture, Boro said that the policy of the council focused on concluding the underground movement to bring back people from the Bodo community into the mainstream.

He credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for being considerate and expressing sympathy regarding the same while focusing on resolving these issues.

"Without peace, we cannot think of development. Without peace, we cannot think of progress. So that's why it was our decision and also the policy that we decided to remove the gu...