BASSA, SPOs protest against State land policy at Dispur Last Gate, Guwahati

Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI: Two organizations – Bhumi Adhikar Sangram Samiti, Assam (BASSA) and a group of SPOs (Special Police Officers – staged a dharna at Dispur Last Gate on Thursday when the Budget session was underway.

The BASSA termed the 2019 Assam Land Policy as anti-farmers and demanded its cancellation. It has raised the demand for ensuring land rights to the indigenous people of the State based on the 1989 land policy. It said that the politics of giving land pattas has to be stopped forthwith, as ‘the State government has been deceiving the people of the state time and again on the pretext of giving them land pattas’. The BASSA has also raised the demand for the release of anti-CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) agitators.

The SPOs, on the other hand, staged the dharna in support of their demand for regularization of their posts. They said that they had been appointed by the State government to fight against militants, including the NDFB. “We fought against militants, including the NDFB. However, the government has rehabilitated the militants but left us in the lurch without regularizing our posts,” one the SPOs said.

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