Matak Yuba-Chatra Sanmilan demands ST status for Matak community

LAKHIMPUR: All Assam Matak Yuba-Chatra Sanmilan (AAMYCS) once again took to the street on Monday to demand Scheduled Tribe (ST) status for the Matak community.

In support of the demand, the activists of the Lakhimpur district unit of the organization, along with the common people, led by president Dulal Konwar, secretary Dibyajyoti Dutta, demonstrated three-hour long sit-in in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office. During the demonstration, the protesters displayed placards and shouted various slogans to demand ST status to the Matak community and for the resolution of different issues of the same.

Expressing vehement resentment, Lakhimpur district unit AAMYCS president Dulal Konwar and secretary Dibyajyoti Dutta said that Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma, when the dignitaries of the organization held talk with him on July 3 last year, gave word to the organization that required steps would be initiated within six months to grant ST status to the Matak community. “But the government initiated no steps in this regard,” the president and secretary alleged.

By initiating the stir, the organization submitted a memorandum with 19 demands to the Chief Minister. Through the memorandum, the organization further demanded the Chief Minister to take step to pressurize the Election Commission of India for the review of the draft on Delimitation proposals to remove the complaints regarding the inclusion of various areas in Dibrugarh, Lahowal, Chabua and Tinsukia LACs, to ensure the permanent and political resolution to the ‘ULFA Problem’ at the earliest by holding peace talk, to grant absolute autonomous governance to the Matak community, to sanction a piece of land to set up a guest house in Guwahati for the Matak community, to sanction required amount of funds to the Matak Autonomous Council etc.

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