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GOLAGHAT: Normal life in Golaghat remained heavily disrupted on Tuesday when All Assam Students Union enforced a 12 hour district bandh demanding action against Abdul Aziz who evoked huge wrath for passing lewd comments against women.
Roads across the district wore a deserted look since vehicles were not plying from early in the morning. All shops and markers, schools and colleges, banks and offices registered thin attended under the impact of the bandhcall.
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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