Violence continued to rock Karbi Anglong district where various government offices were torched and train tracks removed by activists of different organisations on Saturday demanding a separate state on the lines of Telangana.
The agitators set ablaze veterinary, irrigation, agriculture, health, Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) and Public Works Department (PWD) offices across the district last night, officials said on Saturday.
The protestors removed a portion of the railway track between Diphu and Doldoli stations on Saturday, halting train movement, they said.
The indefinite curfew in West Karbi Anglong police district continued on Saturday, while prohibitory order in the district headquarters town of Diphu was relaxed for three hours from 8 a.m. on Saturday.
Flag marches by the army, that was called in by the civil administration, was continuing across the violence-hit district for area domination and to instil confidence among the people, officials said.
Meanwhile, the United Peoples Democratic Solidarity (UPDS), which had signed a tripartite Memorandum of Settlement for peace with the Centre and Assam government in Delhi on November 5, 2011, tore the MoS in Diphu on Saturday claiming it no longer honoured the peace accord.
The then UPDS general secretary, Haren Sing Bey and joint secretary Wazaru Mukrang in the presence of their supporters tore up the MoS.
Both of them are now the Karbi Anglong Autonomous District Council members after the UPDS surrendered in December 2011 following the peace accord.
In Delhi, Chief Minister Gogoi said if anyone has any grievance, Assam and the central governments were ready to talk to them to resolve their problems."But no one has any right to indulge in violence or take law into their hands. Else, we will have to take action against them," he said.
Gogoi said he had briefed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice-President Rahul Gandhi about the situation in Assam.
