GCLO a new fighter group demands for separate Kamtapur state
In Gossaigaon, 6 fighters of newly formed rebel group GCLO held
Assam: According to a video shared by the organization, a new armed revolutionary group known as the Greater Behar Liberation Organization (GCLO) has been formed in Assam.
Sharing a video message, fighters of the armed group GCLO demanded a separate Kamtapur state failing which the group would take up arms.
Speaking on the lines of the banned militant group Kamatapur Liberation Organization, which has long been demanding a separate Kamatapur state in the tribal belt of Assam and North Bengal, the GCLO cadres reiterated that That the struggle for secession will continue. The government is not fulfilling their demand.
Earlier, the banned militant outfit Kamatapur Liberation Organization (KLO) renewed its demand for a separate Kamtapur state.
The organization, through a press release on February 17, said that the demand for a separate Kamtapur state will never end and the struggle will continue until the demand is met.
The organization’s press statement added that the demand for a separate Kamtapur state has always been the main concern of the organization, and the organization’s leaders have never ignored it.
Illegal occupation of Lower Kamatapur by Indian forces will never be accepted. No one in the ruling class of India, Assam or Bengal wants to give economic, political rights to our Koch Kamtapuri people. We will continue our struggle bearing all kinds of failures. The Central Executive of the KLO, demanding a separate state, never passed the Council’s demand for independence. No such announcement was made. And if so, some leaders and workers of the organization are unconstitutionally ignoring the constitutional provisions of the KLO”, the press release from the KLO said.
The KLO is requesting a separate state comprising Cooch Behar, Malda, Uttar Dinajpur and Jalpaiguri regions of West Bengal and Goalpara and Kokrajhar regions of Assam.
Koch and nine other KLO activists had allegedly “surrendered” to the Assam Rifles after entering the Mon region of Nagaland from Myanmar and were later taken to New Delhi on 18 January 2023.
