Dimapur, January 27 (MExN): The United Garo Autonomous Movement Autonomous Committee (UGACMC), an organization of the Garo community in Assam, has called for a 48-hour shutdown after the signing of the historic agreement between the Government and the Bodo stakeholders.
The organizatio has said that the demand of creation of separate Autonomous Council for the Garos living in Assam has been ignored by successive government at the centre, the UNI news agency reported.
According to another report in The Shillong Times, the bandh will remain effective from 5 am on January 28. “In a statement, UGACMC (Assam State) Chairman Alex K Sangma said that the Committee has decided to intensify its movement with the 48-hour Assam bandh to be effective from 5am of January 28 to 5am of January 30,” it said.
“If the Assam Government does not respond to our demand within 96 hours from the termination of the two-day bandh, on Janaury 30,2020, then we would be compelled to stage an indefinite economic blockade in Assam,” Sangma was further quoted as saying in the report.
Meanwhile, according to UNI, Kokrajhar MP Naba Kumar Sarania said that the non-Bodo community living in the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) area should not be negatively impacted after the signing of the “peace pact” between the Government and the four National Democratic Front of Bodoland factions. Majority of Garos in Assam reside in Assam’s Kamrup and Goalpara districts.
