The bandh has been announced by the ULFA from midnight on August 14 to 6 pm on August 15...
Digital Desk: Banned militant outfit United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA-I) has demanded to boycott Independence Day and called for Assam Bandh on August 15.
The bandh has been announced by the ULFA from midnight on August 14 to 6 pm on August 15.
However, the emergency services, media, and religious occasions have been exempted from the bandh, according to a joint statement issued by ULFA-I, NSCN, and GPRN.
Notably, after 40 years, the ULFA-I, lead by Paresh Baruah, chose last year not to boycott or call for a bandh on Independence Day. However, the banned militant group once again called for the bandh this year.
The group objected to Assam's Independence Day celebrations, claiming that the state was "never a part of colonial India."
In a press release, the group cited the second article of the Treaty of Yandaboo, which was signed on February 24, 1826, between the East India Company and Burma.
The group released a statement that read, "According to the second article of the treaty, Burma and the East India Company recognized the sovereignty of Assam, and the state was not handed over to British India," the group said in a statement.
