The Assam government on Sunday (March 15, 2026) signed a memorandum of settlement with three Kuki extremist groups as well as a Hmar group.
The organisations involved are the Hmar People’s Convention-Democratic (HPC-D), United Kukigam Defence Army (UKDA), Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA), and the Kuki Liberation Organisation (KLO), which is also known as the Kuki Liberation Army. The members of all these groups had laid down their arms in 2012.
Assam Education Minister Ranoj Pegu, in whose presence the memorandum of settlement was inked, said the deal envisages the formation of a Hmar Welfare Development Council and a Kuki Welfare Development Council in the Hmar and Kuki-dominated areas of Assam, respectively.
Tripartite talks
“A Suspension of Operations was signed between the State government and these groups after they gave up arms. Thereafter, several rounds of tripartite talks involving the Centre led to the memorandum of settlement,” a senior officer of Assam’s Home and Political Department said.
