28 outfits protest Citizenship Amendment Bill in Assam

Our demand is that the Accord must be strictly implemented. The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, have to be scrapped immediately since the culture, language and identity of Assamese humans is at stake."In Dhubri, extra than 50 AASU supporters, led through Lebo Roy and Saurabh Chakraborty, president and secretary of the union's district unit, took out a protest rally in opposition to the invoice from the district office of Asam Sahitya Sabha to the workplace of the deputy commissioner.A comparable protest rally was additionally taken out by using the South Salmara-Mankachar unit of AASU at Hatsingimari, the district headquarters.Sankalp rallySeventy organizations, led with the aid of the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) on Saturday announced a sankalp (vow) rally on Sunday to force the Centre to scrap the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016.KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi instructed reporters in Tinsukia on Saturday, "We will kickstart the rally concurrently from 4 factors - Sadiya, Dhubri, Diphu and Jonai - with protesters on 1,000 bikes at every point. The rally will culminate at Dispur on November 16 wherein round 20,000 protesters will gherao Janata Bhawan to press for the call for to scrap the invoice.""Indigenous communities had been leaving peacefully in Assam till the Congress delivered Muslim Bangladeshis and created an identification disaster," he said and introduced, "Now, the BJP is attempting to supply citizenship to Hindu Bangladeshis and stressful the disaster."There has been a sequence of protests in Assam and neighbouring Meghalaya over the invoice that seeks to grant Indian citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan who fled to India fearing persecution till December 31, 2014.Akhil said the rally will cowl the complete nation and in the method create focus amongst humans and encompass them inside the combat in opposition to the bill."The 70 organizations have not created an environment of disturbance. We are protesting towards the disturbance created by the BJP and the RSS," he stated.Additional reporting through Rishu Kalantri in Tinsukia Dailyhunt https://ask.fm/zeeemuusin