SHILLONG: Hundreds of youth Congress members from northeastern states marched to the residence of Home Minister Rajnath Singh in Delhi on Wednesday in protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016.
In a statement issued on Friday, Richard M Marak, the president of Meghalaya Pradesh Youth Congress (MPYC), said the march was led by PYC presidents of all the northeastern states.
Youth Congress’s national president Keshav Chand Yadav and vice-president Srinivas BV also joined the protest.
“The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill is highly divisive and discriminatory and contradicts the government’s actions with NRC in Assam,” the statement said.
Criticising Chief Minister Conrad Sangma as a “spineless agent of the BJP”, Marak said, “… why is the NPP, who claim to be a party representing the indigenous people of the nation, not doing anything in protest? Why can’t they come to Delhi and protest against this bill which is clearly dangerous and will change the demographic of the NE states?”
“Meghalaya needs a majboot sarkar not a majboor sarkar. On top of that, we in Garo Hills do not even have an MP to protest against CAB. Conrad Sangma does not represent the people who voted for him, he represents only himself,” he added.
The youth Congress leader said they would continue to fight against the bill as “the youth want jobs not a Hindu nation”.
