{"id":262982,"date":"2025-03-20T14:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T14:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/banned-militant-outfit-ulfa-warns-organizers-to-avoid-hindi-songs-during-assams-rongali-bihu-festival\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T14:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T14:37:14","slug":"banned-militant-outfit-ulfa-warns-organizers-to-avoid-hindi-songs-during-assams-rongali-bihu-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/banned-militant-outfit-ulfa-warns-organizers-to-avoid-hindi-songs-during-assams-rongali-bihu-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned militant outfit ULFA warns organizers to avoid Hindi songs during Assam&#8217;s Rongali Bihu festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/118783427.cms?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Banned militant outfit ULFA warns organizers to avoid Hindi songs during Assam&#8217;s Rongali Bihu festival\" title=\"Banned militant outfit ULFA warns organizers to avoid Hindi songs during Assam&#8217;s Rongali Bihu festival\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-brcount=\"13\">Guwahati: Banned militant outfit <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/united-liberation-front-of-asom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Liberation Front of Asom<\/a> (Independent) has warned the organizers of the Bihu functions and prominent singers to avoid singing Hindi songs during the first seven days of the <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rongali-bihu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rongali Bihu<\/a> festival.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/dynamic_link.cms?msid=107107653&subsecid=1715249553&pos=toppotime:1-->Rongali Bihu (spring festival) is celebrated in April. Bohag is the first month of the Assamese calendar and the <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/bohag-bihu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bohag Bihu<\/a> marks the beginning of the new Assamese calendar year.<\/p>\n<p>A statement issued by the Ulfa faction on Thursday said that as Hindi songs are in no way connected to the Bihu celebrations, they appeal to everyone to avoid performing Hindi songs during the first seven days of the Rongali Bihu or Bohag Bihu.<\/p>\n<p>During Rongali Bihu, many Bihu functions take place in makeshift pavilions with cultural functions for a couple of days<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the month of Bohag is coming, most of the <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/bihu-organizing-committees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bihu organizing committees<\/a> are busy making plans to organize the Bihu functions. However, of late there is a general tendency to organize functions which mainly focus on Hindi song performances. The Ulfa (I) would not allow this to happen,\u201d said the state signed by the Assistant publicity secretary of the banned organization Ishan Asom.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none;\" data-ga-impression=\"Events_widget_$pagename#Impression#url\" class=\"liveEventMain_widget custom_ad\">\n<div class=\"topContain\">\n<div class=\"imgBox\"><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"logoTitle\">Live Events<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/live_events_widget.cms?pagename=articlepotime:1--> <br \/>The organization appealed to the different Bihu committees at different parts of the state including the ones at Guwahati to refrain from organizing functions that allow performance of Hindi songs at least during the first seven days of the Bohag Bihu or Rongali Bihu.The organizations also appealed to all the prominent singers of Assam including Zubeer Garg and <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/papon-angarag-mahanta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Papon Angarag Mahanta<\/a> refrain from performing Hindi songs during the first seven days of the Bohag Bihu.<br \/><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=botpotime:1--><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/banned-militant-outfit-ulfa-warns-organizers-to-avoid-hindi-songs-during-assams-rongali-bihu-festival\/articleshow\/119262552.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati: Banned militant outfit United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent) has warned the organizers of the Bihu functions and prominent singers to avoid singing Hindi songs during the first seven days of the Rongali Bihu festival. Rongali Bihu (spring festival) is celebrated in April. Bohag is the first month of the Assamese calendar and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/118783427.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[202550,202551,48830,6479,2836,89452,202552,202546,2396,46716,202549,17549,73623,9930,202554,202556,202547,22917,72084,202548,202555,5219,202553],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262984,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262982\/revisions\/262984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}