HT Bureau
DIPHU/DIBRUGARH, March 10: The All Assam Students Union and 30 social organisations stage a 12-hour hunger strike on Sunday at Bakalia in Karbi Anglong demanding the repeal of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). The hunger strike started at 9 am and was attended by assistant general secretary of AASU, Shorjun Hanse; AASU executive member, Arnab Jyoti Kakoti and president of AASU, Karbi Anglong District Committee, Dipjyoti Das.
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The students union and the 30 other organisations also staged 12-hours hunger strike at old ASTC bus stand at Thanachariali in Dibrugarh.
Ahead of Lok Sabha elections, the AASU and several others organisation have launched protest programme against CAA.
Union home minister Amit Shah had already hinted that they will implement CAA before Lok Sabha polls.
Leading the protest, AASU general secretary Shankarjyoti Baruah said, “The people of Assam will never accept the CAA. BJP came to power in Assam with the promise of securing the ‘jati, mati, bheti’ (race, land and base) of the indigenous people. But now they are trying to sell their own motherland for the sake of votebank politics. The betrayal by PM Narendra Modi, home minister Amit Shah and Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal will not be neither forgotten nor forgiven by the people of Assam. If they forcefully implement the CAA, the people of Assam will give them a befitting reply to the BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls,”.
“The CAA is a threat to the indigenous identity of the Assamese. If the act is implemented then the Assamese people will become minority in their own state. Everybody was dissatisfied with the BJP government for supporting the act which is a death kneel for the people of Assam. We strongly oppose the CAA because it is against the secular fabric of the constitution and its violates the Assam Accord,” Baruah said.
Many in Assam are against the CAA as it seeks to offer Indian citizenship to the non-Muslim “persecuted” migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, till 2014.
