Guwahati : The All Assam Students' Union (AASU) and 28 other organisations, representing various ethnic and tribal communities today took out a protest rally against the Citizenship (Ammendment) Bill, 2016 in Guwahati.
Thousands of people, leaders, workers of the organisations have take participate in the rally.
The rally took out from Latasil playground to Assam Engineering Institute field at Chandmari in the capital city of Assam.
Apart from the students organisations and few ethnic and tribal groups, prominent artists, singer had also took part in the protest rally.
The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, which proposed to grant citizenship to the illegal migrants belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan who entered India upto December 31, 2014.
Top leaders of the students group said that, the Centre and the Assam government will face massive protests in coming days if the bill is not withdrawn.
All Assam Students Union (AASU) Advisor Dr Samujjal Bhattacharya said that, Assam is not a dumping ground for illegal Bangladeshis. Assam Accord was signed after six years long Assam agitation (Assam movement).
“According to the Assam Accord, those had entered before 1971, he may be hindu, he may be muslim they can staying in Assam with citizenship right. But those have entered after 1971, he may be hindu, he may be muslim, all illegal Bangladeshis should be deported. There will not be any compromised because Assam has already taken a huge burden upto 1971. Assam is a small state and we cann’t load beyond 1971,” Dr Samujjal Bhattacharya said.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
