Published By: Pragati Pal
Last Updated: March 01, 2024, 00:02 IST
Guwahati [Gauhati], India
The anti-CAA agitation will start on March 4 with motorbike rallies in each district headquarters, adopted by the burning of CAA guidelines as soon as these are notified, AASU president Utpal Sarma mentioned. (PTI file photograph)
AASU president Utpal Sarma mentioned that the announcement to border guidelines and implement the CAA at a time when a number of circumstances are occurring towards the Act within the Supreme Court is a “grave injustice to the people”
The All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) and 30 different teams on Thursday introduced a sequence of agitational programmes, together with a 12-hour starvation strike in all districts on March 9 throughout Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go to to the state, in protest towards the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
Addressing a press convention right here after a gathering with representatives of the 30 indigenous organisations, AASU president Utpal Sarma mentioned that the announcement to border guidelines and implement the CAA at a time when a number of circumstances are occurring towards the Act within the Supreme Court is a “grave injustice to the people”.
“The Assamese people have never accepted the CAA and will oppose any step towards its implementation. Along with the legal fight, we will continue democratic and peaceful agitation against the Centre’s decision,” he added.
The anti-CAA agitation will start on March 4 with motorbike rallies in each district headquarters, adopted by the burning of CAA guidelines as soon as these are notified, Sarma mentioned.
“A day after the rules are announced, we will organise a torch-light march in every district headquarters against it. There will also be satyagraha across the state,” he added.
When the prime minister involves Assam on March 8, AASU and the 30 different teams will gentle lamps earlier than the portraits of 5 slain youths, who have been killed in police firing throughout anti-CAA protests in 2019, Sarma mentioned.
“On March 9, when Modi is in Assam, we will launch a 12-hour hunger strike in all districts of Assam,” he added.
The prime minister can be on a two-day go to to Assam from March 8, throughout which he’ll undertake a jungle safari in Kaziranga National Park, unveil a 125-foot statue of Seventeenth-century Ahom military commander Lachit Borphukan, lay the inspiration of Sivasagar Medical College and inaugurate 5.5 lakh Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) homes.
The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) seeks to offer Indian citizenship to Hindus, Jains, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis coming into India on or earlier than December 31, 2014 from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan after 5 years of residence right here.
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