The AASU condemned the police crackdown
Guwahati:
Forward of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go to, the police resorted to lathi cost on activists of the All Assam College students’ Union (AASU) who took out a rally in Tezpur on Friday to protest the central authorities’s controversial citizenship legislation.
The police detained a number of AASU activists on Friday in numerous districts of Assam throughout the demonstrations towards the Citizenship Modification Act (CAA) which noticed protesters maintain torch-light rallies throughout the state.
The crackdown turned violent in Tezpur when hundreds of AASU activists took out a rally within the metropolis towards the legislation that guarantees citizenship to non-Muslim immigrants from three neighbouring international locations in the event that they got here in earlier than 2015.
Broadly seen as discriminatory, the legislation provoked a wave of protests throughout the nation in 2019 and riots in Delhi. It has confronted much more resistance within the northeast, the place many worry it might legalise unlawful settlers who got here in from Bangladesh.
The AASU condemned the police crackdown and introduced a shutdown within the Sonitpur district on Saturday to protest the police motion.
The influential college students’ physique had referred to as a three-day protest in Assam towards the CAA forward of PM Modi and Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah’s visits to Assam over this weekend.
On Friday, an enormous torch rally taken out by the AASU activists was blocked by the police halfway. The outfit’s leaders, together with its Chief Advisor Samujjal Bhattacharya and President Dipanka Nath, later had a heated argument with the police.
“The federal government has directed the police to cease our peaceable, democratic, torch-light rally. This BJP authorities is making an attempt to grab away our democratic proper to protest through the use of pressure,” Mr Nath mentioned.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Dwelling Minister Amit Shah will likely be in Assam shortly, and we warn the Centre that we are going to intensify our agitation towards the draconian CAA. No relaxation till CAA is repealed by the federal government,” he added.
Mr Bhattacharya slammed the Assam authorities for blocking the “democratic and peaceable torch rally”.
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