By Preetam BC (PNI)

 

Kokrajhar: The Indian Confederation of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples North East Zone (ICITP-NEZ) has strongly denounce the Assam Government’s hasty decision to grant Scheduled Tribes status to six communities of Assam.

In Press statement, (ICITP-NEZ) president  Jebra Ram Muchahary    and General Secretary Sanmoni Kemprai said despite of being rejected several times repeatedly by the Registrar General of India (RGI), the present BJP government is playing pre-planned dirty game to grant ST Status by hook and by crook violating all existing norms of identification of the genuine beneficiaries of ST status through established institutions like S.T. Commission and RGI only to woo vote banks from these six communities at the cost of the original scheduled tribe list of Assam and there by the BJP government in Assam is all bent to exterminate the tribal communities of Assam for their mere vested political equation.

Indian Confederation of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples North East Zone  reaction came after the the government has proposes to grant ST status to the six advanced and populous communities –Tai Ahoms, Koch Rajbongshis, Chutiyas, Morans, Motoks and 36 tea tribes communities of Assam. These communities are at present listed as other backward classes (OBCs).

“Considering the immense threat to the survival of the Indigenous Tribal Peoples of Assam, the Indian Confederation of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples appeals all the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of North East to collectively and democratically fight against this historical injustice at all level including legal fight to foil the present hasty design of destroying the existing tribal communities of Assam, it said.