ADGP to mediate with bodies agitating over ST status

Assam government has appointed Additional Director General of Police Pallav Bhattacharjee as a mediator to talk and sort out issues with bodies agitating for grant of ST status to six communities.
"Assam government has appointed Pallav Bhattacharjee, Additional DGP (SB), Assam as the new mediator to liaise with the organisations agitating for ST status of six communities of the state," an official release issued today said.
The six communities in question are Moran, Muttock, Tai-Ahom, Koch-Rajbongshi, Sootea and Tea-Tribes.
Reiterating the state government's commitment to the cause of ST status to these communities, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said he has already taken up the matter with the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and the issue was moving in the right direction.

The Chief Minister assured the agitating organisations during a meeting last night that he would call on the Union Home Minister along with them after the Lok Sabha and Assembly bye-elections are over in the state next month.
Sonowal also requested the organisations to reconsider their agitational programmes.
Following the meeting, representatives of the organisations expressed satisfaction on the assurance given by Sonowal and said they would reconsider their agitation.