Nagaon, Jan. 4: The Akhil Assam Bhojpuri Yuva Chatra Parishad today urged the Centre to review the law and order scenario as Hindi-speaking people living in Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao are feeling insecure after militants issued a quit notice.

In a memorandum to Union home minister Rajnath Singh, the organisation said people living in the hilly region were in a state of panic as they could be targeted by militants. The development comes a day after a militant outfit, the Peoples Democratic Council of Karbi Longri, told Hindi and Bengali-speaking people to leave the area by March 31.

The quit notice has rekindled the nightmare of 2008, when the rebel Karbi Longri NC Hills Liberation Front killed more than 40 Hindi-speaking people in a month after serving a quit notice. "More than 60 Hindi-speaking people were killed by militants in Karbi Anglong between 2000 and 2009. It is very unfortunate that there was no investigation to find the culprits. We want Dispur and Delhi to put pressure on the militant outfits so that lives of Hindi-speaking people can be saved," said the president of the organisation, Narendra Prasad Chauhan.

He claimed that since 2000, militants have killed 400 Hindi-speaking people in the state in nine years. Thousands of houses were burnt down.

In Karbi Anglong, Hamren and Dima Hasao, Hindi-speaking people are involved in agriculture and other trades. Their population is most dense at Kheroni in Hamren subdivision, the sugarcane belt. "We migrated here 150 years ago. Around 20 lakh persons in the state are Hindi-speaking and deprived of rights," Chauhan said.