Motok community of Assam demanding ST status
SOCIAL – RESERVATION
29 SEPTEMBER 2025
- Thousands of members of the indigenous Motok community took out a massive torchlight procession at Sadiya in Assam’s Tinsukia district, demanding Scheduled Tribe (ST) status and the upgradation of Motok Autonomous Council to the constitutionally protected Sixth Schedule framework.
- Protesters hit the streets with banners, placards, and raised their voices for “justice and recognition”, and said the ST status was promised to them a decade ago.
- The long-awaited ST status was a key electoral promise made by the BJP during its 2014 Lok Sabha poll campaign, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledging to grant it to six indigenous Assamese communities.
- Assam’s Moran, Motok, Chutia, Tai-Ahom, Koch-Rajbongshi, and Tea-Tribes communities have been demanding ST status for many years.
