STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: The All Assam Students' Union (AASU) took out a massive torchlight rally from Swahid Nyas at Uzan Bazar here on Friday evening to register its protests and opposition against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). Such rallies were also carried from different parts of the State.
The City Police made elaborate security arrangements in and around Swaid Nyas premises on Friday and prevented the torchlight rally soon after it was taken out by top AASU leaders and workers.
AASU chief advisor Dr Samujjal Bhattacharjya, while condemning the police and Assam Government to prevent the students' organization to take out the torchlight rally in a peaceful and democratic ways, demanded that the government to give exemplary punishment to the police officials responsible for the brutal killing of two youths –Sam Stafford and Dipanjal Das – on the city streets during the anti-CAA movement.
"Why is the present government so scared even to a torchlight rally taken put by the AASU? But we will continue our anti-CAA agitation. Delhi will have to scrap the CAA. This legislation will turn indigenous people of Assam into a minority on its own land," Dr Bhattacharjya said.
The police also prevented the torchlight rallies taken out by the AASU in other parts of the State.