Tinsukia/ Guwahati: Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti’s (KMSS) students’ wing Chatra Mukti Sangram Samiti (CMSS) on Friday registered a case against Assam Education and Health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma at the Tinsukia police station under the hate speech law for his statements on the proposed granting of Indian citizenship to Bangladeshi Hindus.
The CMSS filed the case under section 153 A of the Indian Penal Court.
Commenting on the vexed issue of proposed Indian citizenship to Bangladeshi Hindus, Sarma had on Wednesday stated that he supported the amendment to the Citizenship Act, 1955, proposing to make Hindus and other minority communities from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan eligible for Indian citizenship by naturalisation in seven years.
Responding to reporters’ query on opposition parties’ protest against the new Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016, the minister had said “The people of the state have to choose who their enemy is. The 1 to 1.5 lakh people or 55 lakh people. The Assamese community is at the crossroads. We could not (save) 11 districts. If we continue to remain this way, six more districts will go out (of our hands) in the 2021 Census.” (PTI)
