All Assam Motok Yuba-Chatra Sanmilan stages sit-in at Lakhimpur

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

In this context, the organization demonstrated two-hour long sit-in in seven districts of North Assam and Upper Assam, viz—Lakhimpur, Dhemaji, Biswanath, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Sivsagar and Jorhat. The central committee general secretary of AAMYCS, Swarup Gohain informed that the organization resorted to similar agitation programme in Guwahati too.

By staging the same protest programme, the organization further demanded the State and Union governments to release immediately the special package of Rs. 125 crores declared for the development of the Motok community in 2019-2020 session, to preserve and beautify the historical monuments of the Motok community by evicting the encroachment, to reserve more seats for the Motok community in the higher educational institutions of the State along with Politechnic Colleges, Engineering Colleges, Agriculture University, Medical Colleges and Dental College, to control the sky-rocketing prices of petro-products and other essential commodities, to mitigate flood and erosion problem etc.

The organization also demanded the State government to clarify its stand with regard to submitting the final report on the ST status of the Motok community to the Union Government. Notably, a Group of Ministers had been tasked by the central government to counsel on the rights and privileges of the new STs after the introduction of the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bill in Parliament.

In Lakhimpur, the district unit of AAMYCS staged the protest programme in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office, wherein central committee adviser Arup Baruah, vice-president Pabitra Borpatra, Lakhimpur district unit president Dulal Gohain, general secretary Nabajit Borpatra along with other office bearers and activists were present. The organization submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma through the Deputy Commissioner Lakhimpur in support of sixteen demands.

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