TURA: With the 24-hour deadline given by ANVC (B) to the government to trace their missing chairman Rimpu Marak over and still no word of his whereabouts, anxiety and tension has gripped the outfit’s cadres at its camp at Edenbari near here.
Self-styled ANVC (B) sergeant Solid D Sangma, while speaking to media persons, informed that the outfit had appealed to all the NGOs and leaders of Garo Hills to take up the issue and demand the government to locate their missing chairman who reportedly was detained and whisked away by police at Babupara on Wednesday last.
The ANVC (B) has also accused the ANVC of conspiring with the police against the breakaway faction and stated that there was a conspiracy against the outfi
According to the ANVC (B) sergeant it was Sasan Sangma of the ANVC who had alerted the police that Rimpu was at Babupara and subsequently the police detained and whisked him away.
“Our deadline to the government is over. Now it is up to the NGOs and leaders to pursue the matter. Our boys do not mind going back to the jungles of Garo Hills and if our chairman is not found soon we will go back to the jungles of the Durama range and make it our home again,” asserted Solid D Sangma. He further stated that the future of Garo Hills was in the hands of its leaders and urged them to take the matter seriously