According to this news item, one K K Sangma, a self-styled president of the Garo National Council (GNC), allegedly made a public statement (through NETV) that the Garo-inhabitated areas of Assam have been included in the Rabha Hasong Autonomous Council.
Reports say such a state of affairs can be traced to some leaders of various Garo organisations.
Those leaders have been reported to be driven by actios which can be described as anything but unscrupulous. Selfish motives are said to be behind the combinations and permutations originating from leaders with nefarious designs.
Denying the reports as false and baseless, the GSU has made a clean-up action on the issue of whether Garo areas of Assam have to be included in or excluded from the RHAC, a broad-based and comprehensive meeting of all the leading Garo organisations of Assam was held at Nishangram near Dhubri in September last where leaders of GSU Assam zone Garo Women’ Federation, All Assam Garo Union and All Assam Garo Sahitya Sabha were present. The GNC leaders were also invited to the meeting, but they failed to attend, the students’ body pointed out.
All the Garo organisations excluding GNC had unanimously taken resolutions to include the earns-dominated areas of Assam into the RHAC, where people of the Garo community have been living with place and sharing equal status in central educational and economic fields like other tribes living in this area.
The press release carrying this clarification of the GSU Assam zone was issued by its president Desal Marak. source: assam tribune