The Bodo Peace Accord was signed in which year?

Explanation

The answer is 2020 because the Bodo Peace Accord was signed on 27 January 2020 as a Memorandum of Settlement. The parties included factions of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland, the All Bodo Students Union and other Bodo representatives. The PIB release on the same event describes the Union Home Minister presiding over the signing of a historic comprehensive Bodo settlement agreement in New Delhi, between the Government of India, the Government of Assam and Bodo representatives, to end the long-running Bodo crisis. The agreement's governance focus through the BTC and MoS framework is why this is asked under governance rather than as a simple current-affairs date.

Why the other options are wrong

• (A) 2015 is too early; the PIB release records the Bodo settlement signing event on 27 January 2020.
• (B) 2018 does not match the signing date or the PIB release, both of which point to January 2020.
• (D) 2022 is too late because the accord had already been signed on 27 January 2020.

Concept

This tests internal security, Centre-state negotiations and Sixth Schedule-linked governance arrangements in the Indian Constitution and Governance syllabus. It recurs in RAS because peace accords are often asked as date-plus-context questions, where the year matters only when tied to the political settlement.

Source

• Press Information Bureau

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