HOWRAGHAT: Kuki Chavang Kut festival was celebrated in Karbi Anglong. The Kuki people of the Karbi Anglong came together at the Sarsing Teron Town Hall of Diphu to celebrate the Kuki Chavang Kut festival under the theme “Harmony in Diversity”.
Chief Executive Member (CEM) of Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC), Tuliram Ronghang, and Member of Lok Sabha Horensing Bey took part in the Kuki festival. Besides, several dignitaries including Executive Members (EMs) of Member Autonomous Council and other distinguished guests also participated.
Chavang Kut, an Autumn Festival, is basically a harvesting celebration. It holds historical significance, entailing lively traditions of dancing, sports, and courtship rituals. Today, in Assam, the festival garners recognition as a State restricted holiday, district holiday in Dima Hasao and restricted holiday in Karbi Anglong.
Horensing Bey, in his speech, praised the Kuki community’s efforts to foster communal harmony and emphasized the vital role of peace in the region’s development. Rev. Fr. T. Doungel conducted the inauguration and invocation prayer, followed by a moment of tribute to the martyrs led by Rev. Sanga Keivom.
Dr. L. Doungel, the symbolic chief of the day festival, expressed his delight at the support received from the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council in organizing the Chavang Kut festival every year. Dr. Doungel, appreciating the exemplary leadership of Dr. Tuliram Ronghang, fervently appealed to the KAAC leadership for the reservation of a seat for consistent representation of the Kuki community in the Council.
Dr. Mongve Rongpi, Pu. Kailen Singson, Pu. John S Haokip, President KNA, Mr. H. Rengma, and others, highlighted the festival’s theme and emphasized the need for a united Karbi Anglong. Student leaders from various associations like Karbi Students Association, Dimasa Students’ Union, Nepali, Khasi, Rengma, etc., attended the celebration.
In the evening, the Chavang Kut Committee members met the Chief Executive Members and presented him with the traditional Chavang Kut gifts along with one representation praying for the allotment of land measuring five bighas of land construction of a state-of-the-art Cultural Complex and Students’ Hostel to which Dr. Ronghang assured them of fulfilling their genuine request.
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