Overview
- Chief minister-led tripartite talks in Guwahati agreed the state will ask the Gauhati High Court for an early order on the stay that has stalled evictions from VGR and PGR lands.
- The KAAC will file its long-pending affidavit by January 5 and protest representatives will move a petition, with a second round of talks planned around January 17.
- Immediate steps include shifting government offices off grazing reserves, fencing about 8,000 bighas with an afforestation drive, canceling trade licences issued on these lands, and clearing encroached departmental plots.
- The government announced Rs 10 lakh ex-gratia for the family of the youth killed in police firing and a KAAC job for a kin, and police will offer general amnesty in other cases except the arson death investigation.
- An uneasy calm holds with no fresh major incidents as prohibitory orders, night curfew and mobile data suspension continue under heavy deployment by police, RAF, CRPF and Army units following earlier clashes that killed two and injured dozens.