AASU: We'll continue to oppose Citizenship (Amendment) Act

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: On the occasion of the 37th anniversary of the signing of the historic Assam Accord in 1985, All Assam Students' Union president Dipanka Kumar Nath and general secretary Sankor Jyoti Baruah on Sunday reiterated that they would continue their democratic movement simultaneously with a legal battle against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).

The two student leaders stated the Centre had forcibly heaped the CAA upon the people of Assam in 2019 and termed the Act as an "anti-indigenous law that violates the Assam Accord to provide protection to illegal Bangladeshi migrants."

Nath and Baruah further termed the CAA as "communal and un-Constitutional."

Regarding the National Register of Citizens (NRC), the two leaders said that the AASU will not rest until the names of all illegal Bangladeshi migrant are removed from the document.

"Names of illegal Bangladeshi still remain in the NRC and therefore it is not a correct NRC. The AASU and people of Assam are not happy at the outcome of the NRC update process. We have already moved the Supreme court for re-examination of the NRC," Nath and Baruah said.

They urged both the Centre and the State Government to approach the Supreme Court to pave for way for an NRC that is free from the names of illegal migrants.

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