SHILLONG: Shillong police have cast a security blanket across the city in view of the two back-to-back rallies on January 30 and 31 convened by different NGOs to oppose the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.
East Khasi Hills district superintendent of police Davis Marak on Tuesday said that a strong force would be deployed to ensure law and order on the two days. “We do not expect trouble since the organisers have taken permission for a peaceful rally and meeting, but we will take all preventive measures,” he said.
He said that security will be intensified throughout the sensitive areas of Shillong with heavy deployment of police especially in Motphran.
The KSU will hold a protest march-cum-public meeting on Wednesday to be followed by one on December 31 by the Confederation of Hynniewtrep Social Organisation (CoHSO) to oppose the CAB, which seeks to provide ) citizenship to non-Muslim immigrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh who have suffered religious persecution.
The KSU will hold the public meeting at the Motphran parking lot. The march will start from the KSU office at Jaiaw Chapel Road. The meeting will be held under the theme ‘Say no to Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016.’
Other organisations which will take part are FKJGP, HNYF, RBYF, AJYWO and GSU, among others. The union has asked shopkeepers in Khyndailad and Iewduh to take part in the rally.
The KSU has called for the public meeting as per the decision of the North East Students Organisation (NESO) to which it is affiliated.
