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SILCHAR: Bishnupriya Manipuri Autonomous Demand Committee at its first annual conference held at Kachudaram in Silchar west raised its oft-repeated demand for autonomous council to meet the hopes and aspirations of an OBC community of Barak Valley. Huge turnout at the Dr Kaliprasad Sinha memorial auditorium Bishnupriya Manipuri cultural complex added verve and voice to the demand of the community struggling for its economic amelioration, other rights and privileges.
Gopidas Sinha, Chairman of the Demad Committee, read out the resolutions adopted at the conclave infront of the mediapersons which reiterated its long pending and outstanding demand for the council. Sarbananda Sonowal government did approve it for specific welfare and development of the backward community, he claimed.
The conference therefore resolved that the decision taken in principle by the earlier State government should be implemented and a bill in this regard be introduced in the next session of the Assam Assembly.
This will go a long way to meet the aspirations of Bishnupriya Manipuri community and at the same time strengthen the hands of the ruling party.
The fight for the welfare and development of the community will be taken forward by the 21 member-constituted committee headed by Gopidas Sinha as chairman and Jyotirmoy Sinha as general secretary. The leaders of 6 member Jatiya Sangathan of the community attended the open session chaired by Ani Krishna Rajkumar, former president of Bishnupriya Manipuri Students' Union. From all reckoning, the first conference was significant for its agenda on autonomous council, opined Jyotirmoy Sinha.
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