Kokrajhar: The Ronjali Bwisagu/Rongjali Bihu celebration is going on across the state, peoples of Bodo community is also celebrating the Bwisagu Pwrbw (Bwisagu Utsov) in Kokrajhar with beautiful Bwisagu song, dance that created amusement.
Huge Bodo peoples with Dokhona, Jwmgra, Gamcha, Aronai participated the Bwisagu dance, song with traditional music instruments like Kham, shifung, Harmonium, Jotha, Gwmkao etc at the open Bwisagu celebration at Hadanpara Gwthar Khungtaisali in Kokrajhar. The Rongjali Bwisagu was organized by greater Hadanpara village committee (ward no. 8) in Kokrajhar. Participants performed attractive Bwisagu dance, song with huge entertainment in the region.
‘When Rongjali Bwisagu season comes,Bodo peoples become joyous to dance and sing songs to welcome new year(Gwdan Bwswr).We today organized Rongjali Bwisagu to celebrate the new year as well spring season with pomp and gaity’,said a Bwisagu Organiser in Kokrajhar.
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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