Guwahati, June 23 -- The Boro Diaspora Forum (BDF), a non-political, non-profit organisation representing the Boro community, has strongly opposed the Assam government's decision to allocate nearly 3,000 bighas (992 acres) of land in Kokrajhar district for a proposed thermal power project by the Adani Group.

The land, located in the Banshbari-Paglijhora area under the Bagribari Revenue Circle of Kokrajhar, falls within the Sixth Schedule Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) - an area administered by the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC). Locals in the area have been staging protests against the move, which they say undermines their land rights and the constitutional autonomy of the BTC.

In a sharply worded statement, the BDF said the deci...