After the "sell out" of Sylhet by Assam Pradesh Congress Committee which did not campaign at all in Sylhet, Assam did not remain united as thought by Gopinath Bordoloi and the Assamese intelligentsia. The Assamese leaders sowed the seed of anti-Bengali hat-redness among Garos, Khasi, Nagas, Mikirs, Mizos, Bodos, Kacharis and amongst other ethnic groups. The Assam government was showcasing to the entire country about the states diverse cultural regions and their unquestionable unity.
Soon the nation realized how the Assam government was actually exploiting the non-Assamese people. The non-Assamese then understood it was foolish of them to get swayed into anti-Bengali tirade. Sensing the situation the Central government intervened.
The false pride of the state govt's multi-cultural identity started crumbling.
The mosaic was partially taken apart by the Union government after 1961. Nagas were given their own state Nagaland in 1963. The Garo, Khasi and Jaintia tribes were given autonomous status as Meghalaya, which was subsequently, in 1972, made into a separate state of Meghalaya. The Mizo district was separated from Assam in 1971 and constituted as an Union Territory which gained statehood status on Feb 20 1989. The North East Frontier Agency (NEFA) was converted into a Union Territory and in 1972 rechristened Arunachal Pradesh which also attained statehood in 1989. The two remaining hill disticts, the Mikir Hills (KarbiAnglong), and North Cachar Hills (Dima Hasao) decided to remain in Assam rather than join Meghalaya. They are now crusading for separation. The predominantly Bengali district of Cachar (then undivided), now Barak Valley, also remained in Assam, though there were serious proposals from Central government to merge it with the predominantly Bengali state of
Tripura.
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