"Assam makes another leap towards peace. A warm welcome to the 1,182 members of various Adivasi insurgent outfits who abandoned the path of violence and joined Prime Minster Narendra Modi's mission of peace and progress in the North East," Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
Making another leap towards strengthening peace, a total of eight extremist groups in Assam laid down their arms before Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma at a programme held in the state's capital city Guwahati on Thursday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched the National Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination Mission in Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh and distributed sickle cell genetic status cards to the beneficiaries.
Reacting to the comments made by Congress MLA Umang Singhar that Lord Hanuman was an Adivasi, Madhya Pradesh BJP leader Hitesh Bajpai on Saturday said that the Congress party does not consider Lord Hanuman as god and always tries to insult him.
A total of 39 active cadres of the Adivasi People's Liberation Army (APLA) laid down their arms before the Assam Rifles and Bokajan Police Station in Assam on Friday.
"Now, they (Congress) are showing a lot of respect and affection for the President. Why did they put a candidate against her? Now they are saying that they (BJP) are insulting Adivasis. All this is only to divert the people's attention and gain votes from a section of the society," said H
A special court in Vishakhapatnam on April 6 acquitted all the 13 policemen who were accused in the Vakapalli gangrape case. 11 Adivasi women belonging to the Kondh community were allegedly gang-raped at a village in Andhra Pradesh's Alluri Sitarama Raju district in 2007.
In response to the call of Manyam Bandh that Boya Valmiki, and Bontu, Oriya castes should not be included in the ST list, a peaceful protest was held at Kukkunur main Center, said the Head of Adivasi Welfare Parishad Division, Kukkunur, Sanjeeva Rao on Friday.
The political battle for attaining power in Chhattisgarh is not going to be a cakewalk for the ruling Congress and the main-opposition BJP this time as Sarva Adivasi Samaj (SAS) will play a major role in deciding the equations for the upcoming elections.
The 10-day-long annual state-level Adivasi Mela-2023 (Tribal Fair) on Sunday witnessed a huge rush at Adivasi Exhibition Ground in Bhubaneswar, which was inaugurated by Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on February 20 and continue till March 1 this year.