GUWAHATI: The All Assam Students' Union (Aasu) and 28 organizations representing various ethnic and tribal communities of the state has announced a sequence of protests against the proposed Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016 and in demand of an error-free National Register of Citizens (NRC).
After the realization of a the most important assembly of the organizations in the city on Tuesday, Aasu president Dipanka Kumar Nath said the organizations collectively made up our minds to watch an eleven-hour mass starvation strike in the city on May 29 challenging fulfilment in their twin calls for. Leaders of the entire collaborating organizations will sign up for the starvation strike.
While the organizations made up our minds to take out a mass satyagraha rally challenging fulfilment in their calls for in the city in the first week of June, where protesters from different portions of the state are anticipated to collect, Nath said the constituent organizations will continue staging satyagraha rallies in various districts after the May 29 starvation strike.
Aditya Khakhlari, the general secretary of the apex tribal group of the state, All Assam Tribal Sangha, said, "If Meghalaya government can take a decision to oppose the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016 proposed by the Centre to make migrants of six minority communities eligible for citizenship of India, why can't the Assam government oppose the amendment bill that has kept Assam on the boil for quite some time?"
He added that the Centre and the state govt will have to face large resistance in the coming days if the invoice is not withdrawn.
All Bodo Students Union (Absu) president Pramod Boro said the BJP-led govt at the Centre is showing fear to international nationals as an alternative of shielding the interests of their own voters. "Protecting the language, culture and identity of the people of India should have been the top priority of the government. But, the keenness of the Centre to pass the bill tells a different story," said Boro.
Giving a stern caution to the Centre and the state govt over the move to grant citizenship on spiritual traces, leader adviser of Aasu, Samujjal Bhattacharyya, said implementation of the invoice can't be allowed at any cost. "We demand a time-bound action plan to implement the Assam Accord signed with the Centre, which clearly says all illegal immigrants who entered Assam after March 25, 1971 must be detected and deported. The Modi government must undertake urgent measures to seal the Indo-Bangladesh border and initiate the process of signing a pact between the India and Bangladesh governments so that the illegal immigrants can be deported to the neighbouring country," said Bhattacharyya.
After the realization of a the most important assembly of the organizations in the city on Tuesday, Aasu president Dipanka Kumar Nath said the organizations collectively made up our minds to watch an eleven-hour mass starvation strike in the city on May 29 challenging fulfilment in their twin calls for. Leaders of the entire collaborating organizations will sign up for the starvation strike.
While the organizations made up our minds to take out a mass satyagraha rally challenging fulfilment in their calls for in the city in the first week of June, where protesters from different portions of the state are anticipated to collect, Nath said the constituent organizations will continue staging satyagraha rallies in various districts after the May 29 starvation strike.
Aditya Khakhlari, the general secretary of the apex tribal group of the state, All Assam Tribal Sangha, said, "If Meghalaya government can take a decision to oppose the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016 proposed by the Centre to make migrants of six minority communities eligible for citizenship of India, why can't the Assam government oppose the amendment bill that has kept Assam on the boil for quite some time?"
He added that the Centre and the state govt will have to face large resistance in the coming days if the invoice is not withdrawn.
All Bodo Students Union (Absu) president Pramod Boro said the BJP-led govt at the Centre is showing fear to international nationals as an alternative of shielding the interests of their own voters. "Protecting the language, culture and identity of the people of India should have been the top priority of the government. But, the keenness of the Centre to pass the bill tells a different story," said Boro.
Giving a stern caution to the Centre and the state govt over the move to grant citizenship on spiritual traces, leader adviser of Aasu, Samujjal Bhattacharyya, said implementation of the invoice can't be allowed at any cost. "We demand a time-bound action plan to implement the Assam Accord signed with the Centre, which clearly says all illegal immigrants who entered Assam after March 25, 1971 must be detected and deported. The Modi government must undertake urgent measures to seal the Indo-Bangladesh border and initiate the process of signing a pact between the India and Bangladesh governments so that the illegal immigrants can be deported to the neighbouring country," said Bhattacharyya.
Aasu, 28 groups resolve to take up joint protest against citizenship bill
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