Minority unions announce demands, to hold mass gathering in BTAD area

Guwahati, January 21, 2019:

The minority council, in association with Assam Minority Student Union (AMSU) of Kokajhar Jila Samity of the Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Council (BTAD) has called for a mass gathering on 26 January at 11 am at Duramari. Around 20 demands of the minority council will be addressed by the chief advisor of AMSU, Ajijur Rahman, and President Rejaul Karim Sarkar.

The minority council has highlighted 20 demands to the BTC chief Hagrama Mahilary, Governor Jagdish Mukhi and to the chief minister of Assam, Sarbananda Sonowal. Their primary demands are: to renew the ‘Bodo Accord’, which only provides safeguards to the Bodo community living in the BTAD area, to safeguard life and property of the people living in the BTC areas and to provide them the same status, to remove the villages from BTC who are having less than 50% Bodo community people, to provide land to the people who are residing at the BTAD areas before 2004, to provide hostels for the minority students at Bodoland University and to include Arabi and Urdu language and to employ the TET candidates in the government schools.

The community has also urged the government to hold VCDC elections in the BTAD area.

The community has twelve other demands and the mass gathering is being called to safeguard interests of the minority people in the BTAD areas.