GSMC seeks President Murmu to help carve out separate 'Garoland'

Shillong, Aug. 20 -- The Garoland State Movement Committee (GSMC) has urged President Droupadi Murmu to help carve out a separate Garoland state out of existing Meghalaya and Garo-inhabited areas in neighbouring Assam.

In a memorandum submitted to President Murmu, the GSMC said that the demand for creation of a separate Garoland State is "not a new thing", the petition said that it is a century-old issue which dated back to India's Pre-Independence era.

"The movement for the creation of Garoland State comprising pre-dominantly Garo inhabited areas of the erstwhile undivided Assam and vast chunks of land occupied by the indigenous Garo Tribe spread over Mymensingh and Dhaka Districts now in present day Bangladesh was spearheaded by a pa...