In Guwahati, students under the banner of the All Assam Students’ Union marched from its office to the Governor’s residence and submitted a memorandum addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighting why they oppose the Bill.
Guwahati: The Northeast saw several protests on Monday against the citizenship amendment Bill, scheduled to be tabled in Parliament this session, with students’ bodies staging sit-in demonstrations and marches against the proposed legislation.
A series of protests have been lined by socio-political groups in the Northeast.
In Guwahati, students under the banner of the All Assam Students’ Union marched from its office to the Governor’s residence and submitted a memorandum addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighting why they oppose the Bill.
“The CAB violates the Assam Accord. The BJP had promised in its Vision Document, based on which they had won the elections in Assam, that they will implement the Assam Accord in letter and spirit — the CAB is against that also. Nobody is appreciating Assam for accepting migrants from 1948 (the cut-off date for elsewhere in the country) to 1971. Now they want us to take the load of 1971 to 2014 and beyond. They need legal Bangladeshis for their vote bank. We will not accept this,” Samujjal Bhattacharya, advisor to AASU, told The Indian Express.
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