North East Students’ Organization Rally against CAB today

AASU to march from Swahid Nyas to Raj Bhawan

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: The North East Students’ Organization (NESO) will stage demonstrations near the Raj Bhawans of the NE States in protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill on Monday.

The students’ organizations of different States which are affiliated to NESO, will stage protests in their own ways. The organizations will submit memoranda to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah through the Governors of their respective States by terming the CAB as anti-indigenous people and pro-illegal Bangladeshi legislation.

A press communiqué issued by the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) on Sunday stated that the students’ union will take out a protest march from Swahid Nyas at Uzan Bazar to Raj Bhawan at 11 am on Monday.

“If the CAB is passed in the Parliament, the very essence of the historic Assam Accord will get diluted, and the sacrifices of more than 855 martyrs of the anti-foreigners agitation will get negated. We will never allow this to happen! We have already taken the burden of illegal foreigners till 1971 as per the provision of the Assam Accord. Assam can longer afford to take any more burden of Bangladeshis,” a joint statement issued by AASU president & general secretary Dipanka Kumar Nath and Lurin Jyoti Gogoi respectively, said.

The AASU leaders have alleged that the BJP-led government has hatched a conspiracy to destroy the language, culture, and identity of indigenous people of Assam by granting citizenship to all Hindu Bangladeshis who came to India till December 31, 2014.

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