Autonomous State Demand Committee (ASDC), originally Peoples Democratic Front, was set up as a mass organization of the

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest Marxist–Leninist communist party in India and one of the nine national parties in the country. The CPI was founded in modern-day Kanpur (formerly known as Cawnpore) on 26 December 1925. H ...

with the aim of statehood for the Karbi Anglong region in the

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state of

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

. ASDC was active in the districts of Karbi Anglong and

Dima Hasao Dima Hasao district (), earlier called North Cachar Hills district, is an administrative district in the state of Assam, India. As of 2011, it is the least populous district of Assam. Dima Hasao district is one of the two autonomous hill distr ...

(North Chachar Hills). Several elections to the

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and the District Council were won under ASDC banner. Dr. Jayanta Rongpi represented the area in the

, elected as the ASDC candidate in 1991, 1996 and 1998. Later, ASDC split into two, with one section the Autonomous State Demand Committee (United) breaking away from CPI(ML) Liberation and aligning with the

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. The main group loyal to CPI(ML) Liberation reorganized themselves as

Autonomous State Demand Committee (Progressive) Autonomous State Demand Committee (ASDC), originally Peoples Democratic Front, was set up as a mass organization of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation with the aim of statehood for the Karbi Anglong region in the India ...

. From 1999 election onwards, Autonomous State Demand Committee (Progressive) candidates contest election on the banner of

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now the new party for Autonomous State demand committee was emerged as HSDC Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation Defunct political parties in Assam Karbi Anglong district Year of establishment missing {{Assam-stub

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