Assamese Hold Rally Against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Itanagar

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ITANAGAR: The Assamese society of Capital Complex, Arunachal Pradesh on Sunday organized a peaceful demonstration against the Citizenship Amendment Act-2019 (CAA) at the tennis court campus in IG Park here.

Hundreds of Assamese people with leaflets, placards, and banners shouted slogans against the CAA.

Addressing the gathering, one of the protestors said, “We have sheltered enough of the immigrants in Assam. Welcoming more illegal immigrant will open a food gate, he said while informing that the people of Assam will never accept the CAA.

“We were always against the CAA and won’t accept it. There are already many problems being faced by the indigenous people of the Assam but which has never been addressed,” he added.

He also informed that the protest demonstration was not against any political party, State government; but specifically against the CAA.

One among the protestors, Issac Debbarma from Tripura said, “One can see the impact of immigrants in our State.” He pointed out, “Tripura is the only State in India where the local indigenous people have become a minority. Of the total population of 50 lakh, the local indigenous population is merely 12 lakh.

“Though we are the real indigenous people of Tripura yet we are now being treated as foreigners in own land. The atrocity of the police force and the State government has created havoc among the locals,” he added.

Today the Tripuris need freedom from CAA, he stressed.

Another youth leader said that the continuous agitation by the indigenous people of NE against the CAA in the region is to secure the basic value of our Constitution and to safeguard the rights of the indigenous people of India’s North East.

Among the leaders who addressed the protesters were NESO convener Pritam Waii Sonam, UAIPF president Laffe Paffa, Naharlagun Kristi Kendra president Budhin Dutta, AAPSU leader Marli Kamki, youth leader Isac Deb Barman and several others.

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