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Assam bandh turns violent, one killed
Tuesday August 28, 2012 08:03:42 PM,
IANS
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Guwahati: Tension
gripped many parts of Assam, including the troubled Bodoland
Territorial Areas Districts (BTAD), following fresh incidents of
violence Tuesday in which at least one person was killed and six
people were injured.
A 12-hour dawn-to-dusk Assam bandh called by the All Assam
Minority Students' Union (AAMSU) and other groups under the banner
of the United Movement for Peoples' Rights also added to the
tension.
The bandh was called to demand scrapping of the Bodoland
Territorial Council (BTC) that runs the administration in four
districts of BTAD.
Bandh supporters also demanded the arrest of BTC chief Hagrama
Mohilary.
Late Monday night, unidentified miscreants attacked some villages
under Fakiragram and Salekati police stations in Kokrajhar
district, killing one person and injuring six others.
Police said the miscreants also set fire to some villages.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Tuesday instructed the state
authorities to deal with the situation strictly. He also appealed
to people to help the police contain the situation and asked party
leaders not to make any provocative statements that might
aggravate the situation.
"Additional security forces and columns of the army have been
rushed to the area. No one found to be involved in the clashes
will be spared," Gogoi said Tuesday.
The district administration has also sounded an alert in all the
districts in BTAD and night curfew was in force in Kokrajhar,
Chirang and Dhubri districts.
At Jogighopa in Bongaigaon district, police resorted to blank
firing to disperse bandh supporters, who blocked National Highway
31 in the district. Police fired rubber bullets, injuring nine
bandh supporters.
In Dhubri, security forces resorted to blank firing to disperse
bandh supporters who burnt Mohilary's effigy on NH 31 at Gauripur.
At New Hatipota near Bilasipara, bandh supporters blocked National
Highway 31 and ransacked the office of the Bodoland Peoples' Front
(BPF).
In Sonitpur, activists damagaed the official vehicles of the
Tezpur Circle Officer, Sarangapani Sarma, and officer-in-charge of
Bhojkhowa police station at Bhojkhowa.
In Sonitpur and Barpeta districts, bandh supporters attacked
journalists.
Sporadic incidents of violence were also reported from Morigaon,
Nagaon and Sibsagar districts.
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