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• Aug 7, 2022 | Sourav Boruah

Digital Desk: The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA-I) has urged
people to observe Assam Bandh on August 15 in place of Independence Day.

mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-latin">From midnight on August 14 till six o'clock on August 15, the ULFA
has declared a bandh.

mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-latin">However, according to a joint statement from ULFA-I, NSCN, and
GPRN, the emergency services, media, and religious occasions have been excused
from the bandh.

mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-latin">Notably, after 40 years, the ULFA-I, led by Paresh Baruah, opted
not to boycott or call for a bandh on the occasion of Independence Day. The
outlawed militant group once again called for the bandh this year.

mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-latin">The group, however, objected to Assam's Independence Day
celebrations, claiming that the state "never a part of colonial
India."

The group highlighted the second clause of the Treaty of Yandaboo,
which was agreed to by the East India Company and Burma on February 24, 1826,
in a news release.

The organisation released a statement that read, "According
to the second article of the contract, Burma and East India Company had
recognised the sovereignty of Assam, and the state was not given to British
India."