Cottonians To Send Gamosa As Protest Against CAB To PM Narendra Modi

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GUWAHATI: The students of Cotton University have been taking a series action against the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB), and now, they have decided to send a letter on behalf of the 855 martyrs of Assam Agitation along with Gamosas of Assam to the Prime Minister. The Gamosa is symbolic that no one will recognize the identity of Assam Gamosa in the future because of the Government’s action.

Addressing a press conference at the Cotton University Alumni Hall, the representatives of former Students’ Unions, including the current Students’ Union of Cotton University, have warned of taking a massive protest against the CAB, which may come out to be more grueling than the Assam Agitation. The students’ society also said that it is going organize a programme of mass strike as Ran Hoongkaar on December 6.

Rahul Bordoloi, the present general secretary of the Cotton University Students’ Union (CUSU), appealed to everyone to join the fight against the CAB and to be present in the mass strike programme.

Borodoloi said, “We’re going to start a signature campaign. Besides sending the letter and Gamosa to Prime Minister to express our resentment, we’ve also decided to take different cultural programmes to protest the Bill. If the situation demands, we may also gherao the State BJP office. We ask all former Cottonians to make their stand clear if they are with the ruling party. They should clarify their stand now, because they are seen playing a role that is quite different from earlier role.”

Former general secretary of Cotton College Students’ Union Jintu Thakuria said, “We’re not coming out to protest against CAB by our own consent. We’re not coming out not because of any particular organization or political party’s influence. The organizations, political parties, including the leaders who are opposing the CAB, must be boycotted in public places.”

Former general secretary Amlanjyoti Deori said that the Axam Xahitya Xabha and the AGP will have to face the consequences of their action. Their actions are just for the sake of power, he said.

Former general secretary of CUSU 2018-19, Pranjal Kalita said, “The BJP is again trying to fool the Assamese people by taking 1951 as the base year of NRC. We’ll never let our rights to go into the hands of others. If it is necessary, we’ll be bound to make the protest more massive and frightful than the Assam Agitation.”

Besides demanding the Congress to clarify their stand as they seem to carry two different statements in the Brahmaputra valley and the Barak Valley, the students' society also announced that they have boycotted the presence of the BJP, RSS, ABVP and other supporters of the CAB in the university campus.

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