GUWAHATI: KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi Tuesday said he would meet Congress president Rahul Gandhi, TMC chief Mamata Banerjee, leaders from JD(U) and other parties to make the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill a national issue.
“The bill still remains an issue of Assam and the Northeast. We need to make it a national issue. Though the Congress has opposed it in Parliament, but only their Assam-based MPs have opposed it,” the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) leader, who is at the forefront of the anti-bill movement in Assam said.
Gogoi, along with leaders of the 70 organisations protesting the bill, began a hunger strike from 2 pm Monday at Chachal area here.
“In the next few days, we have decided to meet Rahul Gandhi, TMC chief Mamata Banerjee, leaders from JD(U) and other political parties to convince them about the issue. The good thing is that they’re already ideologically opposed to the bill,” he said at the venue of his hunger strike.
The need of the hour is to unite all the movements going on against the bill across Assam, Gogoi said. (PTI)
