Rehabilitate Karbi Anglong violence-affected families, demand Assam Opposition parties

GUWAHATI

Assam’s Opposition parties person urged the State authorities to rehabilitate the families affected by clashes successful West Karbi Anglong territory little than a fortnight ago.

In a associated memorandum to Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya connected Wednesday (December 31, 2025), the leaders of these governmental parties besides sought capable compensation for the relatives of 2 radical killed successful the unit connected December 23. These parties included the Congress, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), the Raijor Dal, and the Assam Jatiya Parishad.

Also Read | Army deployed successful Assam’s violence-hit West Karbi Anglong

The parties emphasised livelihood enactment for the victims of the unit done employment, accomplishment development, and entree to short-term credit, on with the restoration of assemblage infrastructure, including schools, roads, and bridges. They further said the authorities should compensate tribal and non-tribal families for wounded and spot damage.

“Rehabilitation of the affected indispensable beryllium prioritised,” the memorandum read, demanding a high-level judicial enquiry into the unit and calling for the suspension of Tuliram Ronghang, the main of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council.

The delegation that met the authorities had earlier visited the violence-hit areas, and met the families of the victims. It accused the section medication of failing to grip the delicate situation, and sniffed a governmental conspiracy down the violence.

The unit successful the Kheroni country of West Karbi Anglong territory was the culmination of a fortnight-long hunger onslaught by a conception of the tribal Karbi people, demanding the ejection of non-tribal radical — mostly Hindi-speakers from bluish India — from government-designated grazing reserves.

The protestors pointed retired that non-tribal radical bash not person the close to inhabit specified lands successful a territory nether the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India.

The protestation intensified connected December 22, with a mob mounting the ancestral location of Mr. Ronghang ablaze. The concern went retired of power the pursuing day, arsenic mobs torched houses and shops.

While a otherwise abled non-tribal antheral was burnt alive, a tribal idiosyncratic died successful constabulary firing. More than 180 people, including information personnel, were injured.