Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI: The APCC (Assam Pradesh Congress Committee) has raised the demand for a judicial inquiry into, what it said, killing of three people in Guwahati in the name of quelling the agitation against the CAA (Citizenship amendment Act).
Addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Saturday, APCC general secretary Kishore Bhattacharya said, “We condemn the government for brutally firing on democratic agitators. Sarbananda Sonowal himself has made it to Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) from a nationalistic forum, and he has assured the people of the State of protecting their Jaati, Maati and Bheti. And now he’s trying to quell the agitation against the CAA that has posed a serious threat to the future of the Assamese with an iron hand. The Chief Minister, who’s holding the Home portfolio also, has totally failed to control the law-and-order situation in the State. He has no moral right to continue in office.” Bhattacharya alleged that the BJP is trying to give a communal colour to the democratic agitation against the CAA. Reacting to State BJP president Ranjeet Kumar Dass’ recent statement that ‘footpath vendors like green grocers and egg sellers were involved in the agitation,’ Bhattacharya said, “Aren’t roadside vendors Indians? Don’t they have the right to protest? This amply means that by the term businessmen, the BJP only means corporate houses.” The APCC leader raised the demand for compensation to the next of kin of those who had been killed in police firing and also to the injured people in the agitation.