On July 22, National Liberation Front of Bodoland (NLFB)chief M Batha alias Binod Mushahary along with his 22 associates surrendered with sophisticated arms and ammunition at Lalpool Police outpost in Udalguri District of Assam, reports The Sentinel. The surrendered militants were received by the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) chief Pramod Boro, Assam’s Water Resources Minister Pijush Hazarika, Chief Minister’s political advisor Jayanta Malla Baruah and Special Director General of Police (DGP) (Law and Order) GP Singh. The remaining militants of the outfit are likely to surrender within a week. According to sources, due to extensive anti-insurgency operations along the Assam-Arunachal border in Udalguri District, the group was forced to surrender. In the last five months, the NLFB have been hiding in the jungles bordering Arunachal Pradesh and Myanmar and surviving primarily on attempted extortions. Earlier National Investigation Agency (NIA) had a bounty of INR 10, 00,000 on Batha. He earlier with the banned National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), had laid down arms along with 1,615 insurgents of the NDFB in January 2020 (after the signing of the third Bodo Peace Accord), and later went underground and in March 2021, announced the formation of the NLFB.