Jamugurihat: Sonitpur unit of All Assam Students Union (AASU) on Saturday has called for a 12-hour Sonitpur bandh in protest against the scuffle with AASU protesters and police that left many of the AASU members injured.
AASU activists were seen taking to the streets of Sonitpur, burnt tyres and shouted slogans while police tried to stop them and push them back from the streets to allow movement of vehicles amid the 12-hour Sonitpur bandh.
The AASU members got hurt during the torchlight march was organised by AASU across districts of Assam on Friday (January 22). They got hurt while police tried to stop them from marching ahead.
During the march, the union leaders, including its chief advisor Samujjal Bhattacharya and president Dipanka Nath, also got into a heated argument with the police.
AASU had announced a three-day protest programme ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah's visit to Assam on January 23-24.
Earlier on Saturday PM Modi arrived in Sivasagar district where he distributed land 'Patta' or allotment certificates to over one lakh landless indigenous people in a special programme of the state government. Meanwhile, Home Minister Amit Shah is also scheduled to visit the state on Sunday (January 24).
AASU's protest is to press for their demands of scrapping the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), repeal of the Environmental Impact Assessment Act, and implementation of the report of Committee on Clause six of Assam Accord. Clause 6 of the Assam Accord talks about safeguarding the constitutional rights of the indigenous people of Assam.
The Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 was passed by the Parliament on December 11, last year that provides citizenship to refugees from 6 minority religious communities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, on the condition that they have entered the country by December 31, 2014, and lived in India for six years. And since then protests are on in the state against the draconian law.
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