DIBRUGARH, May 16 – Assam Tea Tribes’ Students’ Association (ATTSA), All Adivasi Students’ Association of Assam (AASAA), All Assam Mundari Sahitya Sabha (MSS) and Adivasi Sahitya Sabha (ASS) have called upon the high command of the Indian National Congress (INC) to induct Etuwa Munda into the new Assam government.
ATTSA general secretary Poban Bedia said that the Congress high command should consider the fact that Munda defeated AGP candidate Anup Phukan with a margin of over 15,000 votes to regain the Tingkhong LAC seat. Munda is dynamic and is also a senior Congress leader among the energetic MLAs from the tea garden communities.
AASAA publicity secretary, Jiten Lakra said that there are various ethnic communities working in tea gardens membership around 80 lakhs in population and they should have at least two of their elected members in the new ministry of the State government. AASAA, which has also put forward the name of Munda, did not name the second elected member.
Adivasi Sahitya Sabha president Wilfred Topno has also demanded that the name of Etuwa Munda be preferred while selecting names for the ministry from among the MLAs belonging to tea and ex tea garden tribes. Topno said that Munda has previous experience of being the PWD Minister for State and so should be eligible to get a ministerial berth.
Etuwa represents various communities of the tea gardens in Assam, he said.
Adivasi Sahitya Sabha is also of the opinion that the new State government should have at least two MLAs from the tea and ex tea garden communities as ministers. Joshua Barjo, president of the All Assam Mundari Sahitya Sabha (MSS) too in a statement requested Tarun Gogoi and the leaders of the Indian Nation Congress to induct dynamic leaders like Munda into the Cabinet.
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