From Our Correspondent
Guwahati: Influential All Assam Students Union (AASU) has organised a torch-light procession all over the state in support of Gandhian Anna Hazare’s tirade against corruption in the country as well as demanding a Jan Lokpal Act to tackle corruption.
The AASU leaders and activists and activists of Krishak Mukti Sangram Samity (KMSS) continued with protest demonstration all over the state for the second consecutive day on Wednesday in protest against ‘undemocratic and repressive’ ways adopted by the UPA government to gag the raging democratic movement against corruption led by Anna Hazare.
A large number of leading citizens in Guwahati along with top AASU leaders on Wednesday joined the hunger-strike organized by the Assam chapter of India Against Corruption in the heart of the city. Students of various educational institutions including at least 20 students from the IIT, Guwahati also participated in the hunger strike here on Wednesday.
The AASU and the North East Students Organisation (NESO) had earlier extended their support to the countrywide movement launched by Anna Hazare against corruption.
The AASU today stated that the people of the Northeast had been experiencing the repressive methods of Government of India to gag democratic protests in the region for years, the same attitude was being shown by the Centre towards peaceful protests against corruption in the ‘mainland India’.
The AASU, therefore, extended support to the people of the rest of the country in their protest against corruption and demand for a Jan Lokpal Bill with ‘sufficient teeth’.
