By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: The Union Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs headed by the Prime Minister is examining the final peace settlement with the ANVC and the ANVC (B).
A State Home department official said that after the clearance from the Political Affairs Committee, the matter will be brought to the Union Cabinet for consideration.
“We hope to get a favourable outcome from the Centre within a month,” the official added.
The draft documents related to the peace pact were earlier circulated to relevant Central ministries including the Home Affairs to get their comments.
It was in January in Shillong, ahead of the Assembly elections in the State, that the Government had signed a draft peace pact with both factions of the ANVC.
The outcome of the meet was that the Government and the ANVC mutually agreed to strengthen and expand the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council after the militant outfit had scaled down from their earlier demands of formation of a separate Garo state and also constitution of Garoland Autonomous Council in line with Bodoland Territorial Council.
However, there was undue delay in reaching a final settlement coupled with a faction of ANVC (B) led by Singbirth Marak alias Norrok X Momin forming the United A’chik Liberation Army (UALA).
Asked about any hurdle due to the presence of various factions of the ANVC, the official said that the final peace settlement will be with all the factions of the ANVC and added that the Government hopes that all the groups under ANVC will come under the settlement.