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Guwahati: Hundreds of tea workers massed outside the Baghjan Tea Estate factory gate in Assam on Wednesday. They stayed for two hours. The crowd included many women from the local tea tribes community. They demanded higher daily wages and legal residential land rights for families living on plots for generations.
The Baghjan-Dighaltarang sub-branch of the Assam Tea Tribes Students Association organized the protest with help from affiliated units. They want the government to speed up the issuance of periodic land pattas. Participants also pushed for solutions to various long-standing welfare issues.
Irot Tanti, president of the ATTSA Doomdooma regional committee, led the assembly. "The protest was intended to draw attention to the community’s longstanding demands and pressing concerns," he said. He pushed for concrete government action to secure housing and improve basic living conditions.
Other key leaders attending included assistant secretary Roni Majhi and Tinsukia district sports secretary Hem Chandra Bag. Jiten Mahato and Rishav Tanti, the president and secretary of the sub-branch committee, also joined the activists. The group remains firm in its push for economic reform.
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