GUWAHATI: Anonymous posters appearing leader minister Sarbananda Sonowal as missing appeared on the partitions of the Cotton University (CU) right here on Thursday making a flutter. The posters have been apparently in protest against his 'silence' on the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016. The leader minister was to arrive on the campus in the afternoon to felicitate UPSC civil products and services examination qualifiers, however the seek advice from was cancelled after the incident.
Security personnel have been deployed around the campus of the varsity-erstwhile Cotton College-after the detection of the posters. Though the Cotton University Students' Union (CUSU) expressed lack of know-how in regards to the matter, insiders stated it should were an act of individuals anguished over the BJP-led Union executive's transfer to cross the Bill that seeks to grant citizenship to migrants belonging to minority communities from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, who entered India prior to December 31, 2014.
As information of the cancellation of the executive minister's seek advice from came in, the scholars began protesting. There was a scuffle with the police once they expressed their anguish that the executive minister was averting a face-off with the scholars and so was staying away. "We are not aware of the involvement of any student in the poster incident. But we have opposed the Bill that will push Assam into danger. We are upset with the chief minister for his stand on the Bill. The students were expecting to apprise him about the dangers of the Bill," CUSU president Mriganka Ray told TOI. He added that the scholars' frame is not is not in favour of granting citizenship to any migrant from Bangladesh on non secular strains. The Cotton campus has been the grooming floor of many a politician in the state.
While CUSU was cooperating with the government on the felicitation rite, its office-bearers deliberate to put up a memorandum to Sonowal on the sidelines of the rite tough withdrawal of the Bill. "We are unhappy because the chief minister's visit was cancelled. We were eagerly waiting to meet him," added Ray.
Recently, an interactive consultation between Sarbananda Sonowal and Assamese organizations founded in Bengaluru was cancelled after a few Bangalore-based organizations representing the Assamese diaspora submitted memorandums opposing the Centre's transfer of granting citizenship to migrants. Since Assam borders Bangladesh, there are rising fears that the state may well be the worst hit if the Bill comes into pressure.
Security personnel have been deployed around the campus of the varsity-erstwhile Cotton College-after the detection of the posters. Though the Cotton University Students' Union (CUSU) expressed lack of know-how in regards to the matter, insiders stated it should were an act of individuals anguished over the BJP-led Union executive's transfer to cross the Bill that seeks to grant citizenship to migrants belonging to minority communities from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, who entered India prior to December 31, 2014.
As information of the cancellation of the executive minister's seek advice from came in, the scholars began protesting. There was a scuffle with the police once they expressed their anguish that the executive minister was averting a face-off with the scholars and so was staying away. "We are not aware of the involvement of any student in the poster incident. But we have opposed the Bill that will push Assam into danger. We are upset with the chief minister for his stand on the Bill. The students were expecting to apprise him about the dangers of the Bill," CUSU president Mriganka Ray told TOI. He added that the scholars' frame is not is not in favour of granting citizenship to any migrant from Bangladesh on non secular strains. The Cotton campus has been the grooming floor of many a politician in the state.
While CUSU was cooperating with the government on the felicitation rite, its office-bearers deliberate to put up a memorandum to Sonowal on the sidelines of the rite tough withdrawal of the Bill. "We are unhappy because the chief minister's visit was cancelled. We were eagerly waiting to meet him," added Ray.
Recently, an interactive consultation between Sarbananda Sonowal and Assamese organizations founded in Bengaluru was cancelled after a few Bangalore-based organizations representing the Assamese diaspora submitted memorandums opposing the Centre's transfer of granting citizenship to migrants. Since Assam borders Bangladesh, there are rising fears that the state may well be the worst hit if the Bill comes into pressure.
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