Government has no moral right to remain in power: AAUA

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LAKHIMPUR: The All Assam Unemployed Association (AAUA) once again flayed the BJP-led government over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).

Demanding the scrapping of the contentious Act, the Lakhimpur unit of the organization initiated an eight-hour-long hunger strike in front of the Lakhimpur Deputy Commissioner’s office on Monday. The Lakhimpur district committee office bearers and the members of the organization staged the hunger strike.

Taking part in the program, AAUA central committee organizing secretary Chirantan Hazarika severely criticized the government over the issue. “Along with the people of the State, our organization never approved of the controversial Act by which the government has hatched a conspiracy to impose the burden of illegal infiltrators coming to this land during the 43 years’ period after 1971. Our organization will continue democratic movement against the CAA until and unless the Act is scrapped,” Chirantan Hazarika declared.

On the other hand, the Lakhimpur district unit AAUA president-in-charge Kukil Ranjan Hazarika and secretary-in-charge Simanta Bonia also came down heavily against the State Government for supporting and advocating the Act. “The State Government is unable to rehabilitate the poor flood victims and to engage the lakhs of unemployed youths of the State who are in frantic search of jobs. Under such circumstances, why is the State Government attempting to rehabilitate foreigners in Assam by accepting the Act? This government has no moral right to remain in power,” stated the president-in-charge and the secretary-in-charge.

Notably, the organization, by initiating the same agitation program, demanded the immediate release of all anti-CAA agitators who were arrested across the state during the last couple of days.

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