Student bodies in KA protest on Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016

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Diphu, May 10 (EMN): In protest against the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016, the student bodies comprising of All Assam Students Union (AASU)-Diphu Regional Committee, Karbi Students Association (KSA), Dimasa Students Association (DSA) jointly organised a torchlight procession in Diphu town of May 9 Wednesday.

Talking the media persons, President AASU-DRC Shorjun Hanse said, “the BJP government has assured the statement during election Jati Mati Bheti slogan, but today they have forgotten everything and even to the people of Assam”.

‘We also warned both state and central government not to implement the bill, because as per the Assam Accord after 1971 whoever came to Assam without any valid documents will be treated as foreigners. Politics is not bigger than the people of Assam and its land,’ Hanse added.

Hanse questioned, ‘if the Meghalaya government can stand against the bill why not the government of Assam?. The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016,  visited Assam and took the view for one day in Brahmaputra valley and 2 days for the Barrak valley, Why?’

The JPC should visit all the 30 districts of Assam and should take the views of the public. ‘If our demand is not fulfilled then the situation of Assam would worsen and the government should take the responsibility for it,’ said Hanse. There are more than 1 crore and 90 lakh illegal Bangladeshi settled in Assam, we will not allow our land to be grabbed by the Bangladeshi, added Hanse.

KSA, President Simion Rongphar asserted that protest against the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016 was done in the recent past too. He said in any of the state in India, if illegal immigrants are settled without any valid documents they then they are illegal. The BJP government knows about the settlement of illegal Bangladeshis in Assam and India but because of political mileage they are not doing so, added Rongphar.

Dimasa Students Association (DSA), President Dhiraj Diphusa said that the bill should be immediately scrapped while question the government for being ignorant on the situation.