Chambugong clan protests against rebel leader

TURA: Displaying its might in numbers and having legal documents at hand to prove a point, hundreds of members from the Chambugong clan, the largest clan in Garo Hills, held a protest rally on Friday in Tura against attempts by former ANVC-B militant chief Bernard Rimpu N Marak to usurp the powers of the Danakgre A-king Nokma by claiming himself as the ‘Chief of Tura Town Nokma Committee’. The leaders of the clan later submitted a memorandum to the Garo Hills autonomous District Council seeking the cancellation of nokmaship of Enilla Ch Marak. Much controversy and heated arguments have been doing the rounds since the last couple of months, ever since Bernard Rimpu Marak had claimed to have been ‘anointed” with the authority of “Nokmaship” by the current Danakgre Nokma Enilla Ch Marak.