Bifurcation of NC Hills district demanded, mass rally organized at Haflong

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HAFLONG: Demanding the bifurcation of NC Hills district and revocation of notice for PRC re-verification, the indigenous people forum organized a mass rally at Haflong on Thursday. Hundreds of people of IPF took out a mass rally which was led by NCHISF, IPF, Women wing of IPF leaders like Hlima Keivom, S Jeme and others. The rally started from Lal Field and it marched through the main roads up to council rotary and converged in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office.

Later they submitted a representation to Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma through the Deputy Commissioner of Dima Hasao District. They demanded early solution of their grievances. They demanded setting up of a Boundary Demarcation Commission headed by a Retired Judge of a High Court or a Retired IAS Officer as agreed upon during the meeting of the IPF with the GoMC on September 11, 2022.

During the meeting, it was agreed upon for setting up of a Boundary Demarcation Commission headed by a Retd. Judge of a High Court or a Retd. IAS Officer which however has not been reflected when the minutes of the meeting came out. Today, after the lapse of 6 months and 12 days, there is no news of the formation of the Boundary Demarcation Commission.

Considering the nature and attitude of the Dimasas towards the Indigenous Hill Tribal People, they also demanded not to involve the Dimasa leaders in the GoA-IPF talks. The IPF communites are not against the freedom of the Dimasas.

In most of their memoranda, they have asked the government to grant the highest possible political status to the Dimasas provided that they, the Indigenous Hill Tribal people are not included within whatever political status that may be granted to the Dimasas. On the other hand, the Dimasas are always against the least freedom of the Hill Tribal People. They are ambitious to put the Hill Tribal People always under their control.

They are not demanding the land of the Dimasas like Maibang valley which they are claiming as their past kingdom. They are demanding their ancestral land, the hill region which was never under the control of the Dimasa king. They also demanded revocation of the Notification of the NCHAC, Haflong for the PRCs Verification.

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