HAILAKANDI, Aug 13 � The Union Territory Demand Committee (UTDC) has decided to intensify its movement for the declaration of Barak Valley as a union territory with the inclusion of three districts, Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi.
Addressing a series of street corner meetings organised in the different parts of Hailakandi town, the president of the committee, Paritosh Paul Choudhury threatened to launch vigorous movement throughout Barak Valley if the Centre keeps mum over their long-pending demand within the next couple of months. He said that the demand for separate Barak land has become extremely justified after the declaration of Telengana as new State.
Paul Choudhury, who is also a veteran journalist, alleged that the people of Barak Valley are getting step-motherly treatment from the State Government in every respect and Dispur is treating the valley as its colony. �Due to the mysterious silence of the public representatives of Barak Valley both in the Assembly and in the Parliament, the people of this area should come forward to decide their own fate through joining in Barak separation movement right now,� he said.
Justifying the reason of intensifying the Barak separation movement, he said that if a few thousands of Karbis and Bodos get the attention of the government towards their Statehood demand then they have every right to raise the separate Barak land demand for the forty lakh deprived Bengalis. He further said that the demand of Barak separation is 43 years old and the government should consider it on a priority basis before the creation of separate Kamtapur, Bodoland and Karbi land. He appealed to the people of Barak Valley to come forward to support the democratic movement of UTDC.
Another speaker Samsul Islam Barlaskar narrated the plight of the people of Barak Valley particularly the delay in Silchar-Lumding broad gauge conversion work, construction of Rashtriya Mahamarg which connects Silchar to Saurashtra etc. He further said that the Britishers constructed the existing Silchar-Lumding meter gauge in just six years without any sophisticated machines more than hundred years ago but the present gauge conversion project has already crossed seventeen years and the progress is very poor till date despite modern technologies. He lamented that the very existence of the Bengali people of Barak Valley would be in grave danger if a separate entity is not given to them.
HAILAKANDI, Aug 13 � The Union Territory Demand Committee (UTDC) has decided to intensify its movement for the declaration of Barak Valley as a union territory with the inclusion of three districts, Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi.
Addressing a series of street corner meetings organised in the different parts of Hailakandi town, the president of the committee, Paritosh Paul Choudhury threatened to launch vigorous movement throughout Barak Valley if the Centre keeps mum over their long-pending demand within the next couple of months. He said that the demand for separate Barak land has become extremely justified after the declaration of Telengana as new State.
Paul Choudhury, who is also a veteran journalist, alleged that the people of Barak Valley are getting step-motherly treatment from the State Government in every respect and Dispur is treating the valley as its colony. �Due to the mysterious silence of the public representatives of Barak Valley both in the Assembly and in the Parliament, the people of this area should come forward to decide their own fate through joining in Barak separation movement right now,� he said.
Justifying the reason of intensifying the Barak separation movement, he said that if a few thousands of Karbis and Bodos get the attention of the government towards their Statehood demand then they have every right to raise the separate Barak land demand for the forty lakh deprived Bengalis. He further said that the demand of Barak separation is 43 years old and the government should consider it on a priority basis before the creation of separate Kamtapur, Bodoland and Karbi land. He appealed to the people of Barak Valley to come forward to support the democratic movement of UTDC.
Another speaker Samsul Islam Barlaskar narrated the plight of the people of Barak Valley particularly the delay in Silchar-Lumding broad gauge conversion work, construction of Rashtriya Mahamarg which connects Silchar to Saurashtra etc. He further said that the Britishers constructed the existing Silchar-Lumding meter gauge in just six years without any sophisticated machines more than hundred years ago but the present gauge conversion project has already crossed seventeen years and the progress is very poor till date despite modern technologies. He lamented that the very existence of the Bengali people of Barak Valley would be in grave danger if a separate entity is not given to them.
