Protest Against CAA Never Ended And Will Never End: AASU

Guwahati: Union Home Minister Amit Shah's statement over CAA in Bengal didn't land well in Guwahati as AASU adviser Samujjal Kumar Bhattacharya on Friday said that protest against CAA has never ended and will never end.

Notably, Shah is in Bengal and during a public meeting in Siliguri in North Bengal, Shah accused Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of spreading rumours that the new citizenship law would not be enforced.

''I want to make it clear that the Trinamool Congress is spreading rumours that the CAA will not be implemented. I want to say that as soon as the COVID wave comes under control we will implement CAA on the ground,'' he said.

Reacting to this statement of Shah, the AASU president said that the Supreme Court had already ordered to look into the matter separately for the northeast.

''There should be a dominance of indigenous people in Assam. There should be decisive power of the indigenous people,'' he added.

He also threatened to continue the protest if the government is mulling implementing CAA.

The CAA grants citizenship to six persecuted minorities in neighbouring countries – Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh – which are all Muslim-majority countries.

The Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) had been steered through both Houses of Parliament by the BJP-led government before it finally became law.

The most intense violence was initially reported from several parts of the Northeast, notably Assam and to some extent Tripura.

Guwahati in Assam was the epicentre of the anti-CAA protests, with former Assam CM Chief Minister Sarbanand Sonowal's home district of Dibrugarh also witnessing violent protests.

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