Decoded | EP 43 | Can the demand for Gorkha Autonomous Council change the face of Assamese politics?

Here's a quick general knowledge question for you: How many

autonomous

council

s are there in Assam? If you guess the answer well done, don't shout at me, honestly, I can't hear you because others, let us answer the three

autonomous

council

s according to the sixth schedule of the Indian constitution. They are the Territorial Council of the Borrowed Country, the Dimahasa Autonomous District Council and the Caribbean Autonomous District Council, then there are statutory autonomous councils constituted for the social, economic, educational, ethnic and cultural advancement of the tribal communities living in the core areas as well as in satellite areas covering many districts. of Assam there are six statutory autonomous councils namely Hassan Autonomous Council, Missing Autonomous Council, Diva Autonomous Council, Devi Autonomous Council, Tengal Kachari Autonomous Council and Sonuel Kasari Optimus Council and, Finally, for socio-economic upliftment and sustainable development of different backward communities, the government of Assam has created 33 development councils to decentralize power and responsibility so that they can address development needs.

The main function of these Council bodies is to formulate various mental development schemes and projects and implement them on a priority and need-based basis. Now we will not name all of them. 33 but Gorkha Development Council is one of them, why are we mentioning only one? If certain members of the Gorkha community are to be believed and their current agitation is fruitful, there could be another Gorkha Autonomous Council, but what are the challenges facing the community? It is even fair which areas will comprise the Gorkha Autonomous Council and how a non-tribal community can get an autonomous Council.

I am Kalyan Dev and in today's episode of

decoded

we try to understand why such a

demand

can potentially

change

the

face

of Assamese

politics

. On Independence Day, according to experts, Assam Gorkhas have been

demand

ing a Gorkha Autonomous Council from the GAC since 2003, however, as Nanda Kirati Diwan, the spokesperson for the Gorkha Autonomous Council demand committee, explains that the demand for The Autonomous Council was made during the 21st annual conference in 1997 at Bogena, Higher Secondary School in North Lakimpur, under the leadership of the then president of Assam Gorkha Students Union, now president of the demand committee of Gorkha Autonomous Council o The gacdc, here's what Devon had to add about the story of the lawsuit, starting with how the Gokha community felt discriminated against when people saw them as Nepalese citizens and not Indians.

Now, historically, the online workers if you look at the history of the dollars and the workers of this union, it had many small units, like the big boy, the custodian and the daranga student union. The Guwahati Gorkha student and all these student workers merged in the year 1976 and formed dollars in the Union of our clients. Now the Golka studio had a special demand to, you know, scrap the friendship treaties between Indonesia and Nepal, cross grades 6 and 7 in particular. This is because Indians and Nepalese citizens have the right to come and live in Assam in India and vice versa except to write, vote, write, they could buy property, pay taxes and everything, so this somewhere is exactly this was the reason that diluted the you know. the Indianness of the citizenship of the people, the Gurkhas in a sun and in the rest of India, due to these two alone, the gold suit was settled before the dglc, where on 24 August 1988 it was decided that the gold It has an Indian character. citizen there in Darjeeling Hills area on similar lines Advice was demanded.

Here's the thing: There is a lack of Gurkhas living in India, but even today and sometimes more out of habit than anything else, the moment someone says Gorkha, we think of them as Nepalese and this of course hurts several people. who have only known India as their home, according to the experts we spoke to. The demand to be called the indigenous population of Assam dates back to the NRC process in Assam when, in Diwan's words, the Gurkhas were subjugated to non-originally Indian inhabitants. in the comments section this led to a march of more than 600 kilometers along a Sam and several meetings with high-level politicians in the state was being updated when the workers were subjected to non-Indians and were given noi non-indigenous not original inhabited in that you know in the comments section this led to a 650 kilometer marathon walk on Mars from a place under the leadership under the banner of the gicdc this led to talks with Atul Bora then minister then with the government of India Assam government with the chief minister Which leads to know that he chairs the meeting and then tries to try to be a part and talk to the Assam government to resolve the indigenous issue of workers in Ascent in 2020.

Bhartiya's Assam unit Gorkha Parisank or the BGP released a white paper emphasizing that the golden cars are an indigenous group of the state and should be included as such in the high-level committee report on Clause 6 of the Asami code that had left out the community, who He is a gold medalist in anthropology from Dibrugar University, he says that historical and anthropological studies have shown that Gorkhas are not only indigenous but also aboriginals of the Himalayan mountain range and progeny of an aboriginal community, okay, but why Has demand been stimulated now? Later in this video we will hear Chetri answer that question, but for now one reason for the lawsuit is that the community believes that the Development Council we mentioned earlier was nothing less than a failure.

The Gorkha Development Council was set up by the state government on October 11, 2010 to reach out to community members in a more inclusive manner, however it may seem in its 12 years of existence. underperformed or simply did not perform at all in a joint meeting, after consultations with important stakeholders within the Gorkha community, some government unanimously resolved to accept the GDC only on an experimental basis, but never in place of the Gorkha Autonomous Council, but as members of The community points out that since 2016 the GDC has not fulfilled the expectations and aspirations of the Gorkhas to be an indigenous community of Assam and exercise the right to self-determination, as discrimination remains rampant, except for a few beneficiaries who received GI sheets, sewing machines, laptops and some other points there has been no development from the community members in real sense now let's hear what chetri believes the reason why there has been a spurt in the demand for an autonomous council we have been raising autonomy for gogas since a long time but During the process of updating the NRC, I have been in the process of implementing the Assam Accord especially closed six at that time, we have seen that the government of the India and the government of Assam intentionally impose the emergency limit which is midnight on March 24, 1971. 1971, which is only applicable in the case of Bangladeshis, the territory defined by the citizenship law 6A means for detection and deportation of foreigners as part of my body.

At that time we realized that the government of India and the government of Assam had been imposing that map and they intentionally the government of India and the government of some intentionally marked us, that means that the gurhas of Assam are foreigners, that is what we realize again that the demand for recognition of the indigenous people must be air and we, the jcdc of the jcdc platform have been demanding this recognition that the main reason why we have now been raising demands for recognition of indigenous status are fine, everyone makes one, but how does the demand translate into the real world if, for example, a GSE becomes a reality in which areas? would come under the GSE in which district, cutting across districts, would be a contiguous self-governing council along the lines of, say, the defunct self-governing council.

For now, not even the gacdc has presented its plan, but it is unlikely that any area that comes under the GSE will not do so. touch interfering or encroaching on other communities' territories, as we said, it remains to be seen how, if at all, those questions are answered for now, although it seems unlikely that such a demand will become a reality, but then stranger things have happened in Assam. forget to like, share and subscribe to East Mojo for any queries, write them in the comments section below and hit the bell icon to receive notifications.