The Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad has also welcomed the agreement, but warned that it would not allow a single inch of Terai and Dooars to be included in the new hill council. According to yesterday's agreement, a committee will be set up to go into the GJM's long-standing demand for inclusion of mouzas of the two areas, inhabited mainly by the Adivasis, in the council. The state president of the ABAVP Birsha Tirkey today said he had submitted a memorandum at the chief minister's chamber in the state secretariat in Kolkata demanding that the two regions be included in the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution. Tirkey demanded that the ABAVP should be consulted before any discussion on expansion of territory of the new hill council took place. "We need to be taken into confidence in the crucial exercise," he said.
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