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 The Communist Party of India (CPI) is a political party in India. The CPI considers the December 26, 1925 Cawnpore (Kanpur) conference as its foundation date. Between 1946 and 1951, the CPI led militant struggles such as the peasant revo ...

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

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state of

Assam Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley, Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . It is the second largest state in Northeast India, nor ...

. ASDC was active in the districts of

Karbi Anglong Karbi may refer to: Places * Karbi, Armenia * Karbi Anglong Plateau, an extension of the Indian Plate in Assam, India * Karbi Anglong district, a district of Assam, north-eastern India Other uses * Karbi people, an ethnic group of North-e ...

and

Dima Hasao Dima Hasao 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 two autonomous hill districts of Assam. The district headquarters Haflong ...

(North Chachar Hills). Several elections to the

Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, also known as the House of the People, is the lower house of Parliament of India which is Bicameralism, bicameral, where the upper house is Rajya Sabha. Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by a ...

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

. In 2015, a group of former leaders from the Autonomous State Demand Committee (ASDC) established a new political party known as the Hills State Demand Council (HSDC). The HSDC's primary objective was to continue ASDC's advocacy for the creation of a separate state for the hill districts of Assam. The new party sought to pursue this goal with a ''transformed dynamism''.

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Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation Defunct political parties in Assam Karbi Anglong district Year of establishment missing {{Assam-stub

Members of Lok Sabha

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