Guwahati : Massive protests against centre’s Adopt-a-heritage scheme have been continued in Assam.
On Friday, Assam’s farmer organisation Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) had staged a protest rally at Kohora in Kaziranga National Park (KNP) against the Union government’s decision to hand over the world heritage site to a private company under the centre’s Adopt-a-heritage scheme.
Several hundred workers of the farmer organisation had took part in the protest rally.
KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi said that, the people of Assam will not allow any public property, monuments to hand over private companies.
“We will continue our agitation to preserve our properties, monuments. The
BJP had promised to protect Jati, Mati and Bheti (community, land and hearth), but they are trying to sell everything. We will not allow it,” Akhil Gogoi said.
Protests also continued at Nazira in Sivasagar district and other parts of the state against the Adopt-a-heritage scheme.
On the other hand, Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) vice president and former minister Pradyut Bordoloi slammed BJP-led Union government’s decision of privatisation of the monuments.
Addressing a press conference held at Rajiv Bhawan in Guwahati, the Assam Congress leader said that, Congress has opposed the centre’s decision.
“The BJP-led government involved in a conspiracy to hand over our monuments to the private companies,” Bordoloi said.
Pradyut Bordoloi further said that, whenever BJP-AGP alliance happens, secret killings like incidents start in Assam.
The Assam Congress leader also demanded the state government to rescue Rebati Phukan, once part of a citizen's group formed by Ulfa to mediate with the centre, safely, who was missing last week.
On the other hand, tagging Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal as ‘Tragic Hero of Assam’, Pradyut Bordoloi said that, he is totally failed to fulfil the need of the people of the state.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
