Goalpara, Jan. 29: The All Rabha Students’ Union has opposed the delimitation of Boko and Dudhnoi Assembly constituencies and demanded that the Rabha community be included in the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution. It has also opposed panchayat elections in the Rabha Hasong Autonomous Council areas.

Sources in the students’ union said the government was trying to impose panchayat elections in the autonomous council areas, which is entirely against the spirit of the Rabha Accord of 1995. It also blamed the state politicians for trying to delimit the Dudhnoi and Boko Assembly constituencies, reserved for Scheduled Tribes.

Sources said a Gauhati High Court order bars the government from holding panchayat and zilla parishad elections in the council areas. The students’ union threatened to move the high court if the state decided to hold panchayat elections in the autonomous council governed areas.

The students’ union president, Tonkeswar Rabha, said the state is violating the clauses of the 1995 accord, where a specific clause prevents the state from imposing any panchayati raj institution in the autonomous council areas.

“We have also been demanding elections to the autonomous council, which has been running on an ad hoc basis since its formation. The state government had decided to hand over 40 subjects to the autonomous council in 1995, but is not executing the decision on the plea that the council does not have elected members,” Rabha said.

The students today staged a dharna in New Delhi.

It also submitted a memorandum to the chairman of the delimitation of constituencies, Kuldeep Singh, and met several other Union ministers and placed their demands.