Click to play videoNew Delhi: Increasing incidents of violence are being reported from Assam as the bandh in the state enters the second day on Tuesday. And this morning 20,000 tribals took out a rally in Sunitpur.
Tribals ransacked shops and beat up people on the road. Reports say one person was killed and two others injured in the violence.
They also set ablaze vehicle in Kokrajhar and damaged several buses. The bandh has affected life in pockets around the tea gardens.
One person was killed and several vehicles were torched in different parts of the State, as sporadic violence marred the All-Adivasi Students’ Association of Assam -sponsored 36-hour State wide bandh, which began on Monday.
One person was killed, 260 were injured and shops and vehicles destroyed during Saturday’s clashes involving AASAA protesters and locals .
The bandh call was issued by the AASAA and the All-Assam Tea Tribe Students Association (AATSA) to protest against the brutalities inflicted on Adivasi protesters and to press for ST status.
The bandh affected life in most of the districts, its impact being total in areas dominated by Adivasis and the tea tribes. There was no impact in the city. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi announced the constitution of a Cabinet committee to study the creation of a development council for the Adivasis and two other communities — Moran and Matak.
Gogoi said allocations for tea tribe communities, minorities, the Scheduled Tribes and castes and other backward communities would be increased.
The Asom Gana Parishad and the former Jharkhand Chief Minister, Babulal Marandi, alleged that Saturday’s violence was a “planned conspiracy of the ruling Congress.
In an unrelated incident, a tea garden sardar belonging to the tea tribe community was killed when troops of the Army’s 316 Field Regiment fired on him and two others riding a motorcycle at Disangpani-Banamali Tiniali in Upper Assam Sivasagar district in the early hours of Monday.
Principal Secretary Home Subhas Das said that the Army version was the trio ignored a signal to stop.
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