AASU intensifies agitation against CAB in Lakhimpur

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LAKHIMPUR: The agitation programmes opposing the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill rocked the environment across Lakhimpur district on Wednesday too. At a time when the BJP-led Union Government has propelled its move to pass the Bill in the ongoing winter session of the Parliament, various organizations, including All Assam Students’ Union (AASU), have intensified their anti-CAB movement in Lakhimpur.

The activists of the North Lakhimpur regional unit of AASU burnt the effigies of Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, BJP State president Ranjit Dass, Agriculture Minister Atul Borah and Water Resource Minister Keshab Mahanta for their support to the controversial Bill at Main Chariali of North Lakhimpur town. The organization alleged that these political leaders had shamelessly bowed before the Union Government and RSS in support of the CAB, thus pushing the existence of the Assamese community, its language, literature and culture to tremendous crisis. The protesters, led by president Pranjit Gogoi and general secretary Punamjyoti Burhagohain, rocked the environment by shouting various slogans.

Leading the protest programme, president Pranjit Gogoi came down heavily against the CAB. “By supporting the communally motivated Bill, Sarbananda Sonowal, Himanta Biswa Sarma and Atul Borah are attempting to lead the Assamese language and literature to extinction while BJP State president Ranjit Dass has extended them good support by following the instructions issued from New Delhi,” alleged Pranjit Gogoi in front of media persons. He affirmed that AASU would never approve of the Bill and never allow it to be passed in the Parliament.

On the other hand, the students of several prominent colleges of North Lakhimpur also took to the streets on Wednesday demanding scrapping of CAB. Led by Sachetan Chatra Samaj of North Lakhimpur College (Autonomous), in association with Lakhimpur Chatra Samaj, these students demonstrated bikshobh at North Lakhimpur College Chariali in the evening opposing the Bill. Then they took out a torchlight rally in North Lakhimpur town, shouting slogans against CAB and the Union and State governments. These protesters also issued threat to intensify the agitation programmes unless CAB was scrapped.

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