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Final Up to date: March 01, 2024, 00:02 IST
Guwahati [Gauhati], India
The anti-CAA agitation will start on March 4 with motorbike rallies in each district headquarters, adopted by the burning of CAA guidelines as soon as these are notified, AASU president Utpal Sarma stated. (PTI file photograph)
AASU president Utpal Sarma stated that the announcement to border guidelines and implement the CAA at a time when a number of instances are happening in opposition to the Act within the Supreme Courtroom is a “grave injustice to the individuals”
The All Assam College students’ Union (AASU) and 30 different teams on Thursday introduced a sequence of agitational programmes, together with a 12-hour starvation strike in all districts on March 9 throughout Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go to to the state, in protest in opposition to the Citizenship (Modification) Act.
Addressing a press convention right here after a gathering with representatives of the 30 indigenous organisations, AASU president Utpal Sarma stated that the announcement to border guidelines and implement the CAA at a time when a number of instances are happening in opposition to the Act within the Supreme Courtroom is a “grave injustice to the individuals”.
“The Assamese individuals have by no means accepted the CAA and can oppose any step in the direction of its implementation. Together with the authorized struggle, we are going to proceed democratic and peaceable agitation in opposition to the Centre’s choice,” he added.
The anti-CAA agitation will start on March 4 with motorbike rallies in each district headquarters, adopted by the burning of CAA guidelines as soon as these are notified, Sarma stated.
“A day after the principles are introduced, we are going to organise a torch-light march in each district headquarters in opposition to it. There can even be satyagraha throughout the state,” he added.
When the prime minister involves Assam on March 8, AASU and the 30 different teams will mild lamps earlier than the portraits of 5 slain youths, who had been killed in police firing throughout anti-CAA protests in 2019, Sarma stated.
“On March 9, when Modi is in Assam, we are going to launch a 12-hour starvation strike in all districts of Assam,” he added.
The prime minister will likely be on a two-day go to to Assam from March 8, throughout which he’ll undertake a jungle safari in Kaziranga Nationwide Park, unveil a 125-foot statue of Seventeenth-century Ahom military commander Lachit Borphukan, lay the muse of Sivasagar Medical Faculty and inaugurate 5.5 lakh Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) homes.
The Citizenship (Modification) Act, 2019 (CAA) seeks to supply Indian citizenship to Hindus, Jains, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis getting into India on or earlier than December 31, 2014 from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan after 5 years of residence right here.
