The United Liberation Front of Asom has banned a Bhujpuri student organization amid an escalating protest over the recent killing of a Tinsukia trader.
In a statement, the outfit has asked the common people to distance themselves from the Bhojpuri student leaders who have targeted the outfit bereft of any reason.
Accoridng to ULFA, the Bhujpuri student leaders have crossed the limit when they staged protest against the Tinsukia incident where gunmen killed a local trader and his daughter at Bijuliban area last week.
We are deeply concerned about the continuing ethnic violence in Manipur between the Meitei community and the tribal Kuki and Zo communities. We demand an immediate halt to this violence that is causing large scale disruption of lives, livelihoods and properties and unleashing even more terror among people.
The immediate trigger to this violence was an April 2023 Manipur High Court order advising the state government to grant the Meitei community (members of which now have either OBC or in some cases SC status) the status of Scheduled Tribe. Thereby, the Meitei community would have access to land that is currently reserved for tribal communities. Several spates of violence broke...
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