The demands for self governance within the framework of the Indian constitution for the creation of a separate Garo autonomous council in Assam was repeatedly made by the United Garo Autonomous Council Movement Committee (UGACMC) of Assam State.

UGACMC chairman Alex K. Sangma and general secretary Thengsil Sangma on Saturday at Goalpara said, “The Garo community is the second largest tribe among all the tribes in Assam who must be given freedom to assert and determine the universally accepted principle of right to political self determination. We must have a separate autonomous council of our own to retain our socio-cultural ethnicity, identity etc.”

The Garo leaders claimed to ‘intensify mass and effective agitation’ against the Government of Assam if the demands for creation of separate autonomous council is not fulfilled.