The Home minister Mr. P Chidambaram said, the Centre was committed to engage in political dialogue with any militant group, which is ready to shun violence. Replying to supplementaries in the Rajya Sabha yesterday, Mr Chidambaram said the Centre is engaged in back channel talks with jailed chief of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) Ranjan Daimary in Assam. He said, Mr Daimary is in prison so talks are with him through the back channel. Mr Chidambaram said that the government was in touch with Daimary and hoped that once the talks start there would be progress.He said one faction of the NDFB was in favour of talks with the government, but the one led by Daimary was not. The minister said, a Memorandum of Settlement was signed between the central government, Assam government and the Bodo Liberation Tiger in 2003 for setting up the Bodoland Territorial Council in Assam and inclusion of the Bodo language in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution among others. He said the government is committed to implement the memorandum of settlement in letter and spirit.