National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) has called for 24-hour Assam bandh on January 31, 2018. In a press release, NDFB general secretary B Ohnjalu said that the proposed bandh has been declared in the light of life sentence awarded to its president and nine others by the CBI special court on January 30, 2019. According to PTI report, NDFB chief Ranjan Daimary, and nine others were sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2008 Assam serial blast case that had claimed 88 lives.