Guwahati: Students staged a ‘Ranahungkar’ (War Cry) against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill in the city’s premier Cotton State University on Friday in which intellectuals and artistes participated.
The All Assam Students’ Union (AASU), along with 30 indigenous groups, staged protests against the bill across Assam and burnt the effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal.
Eminent academic and intellectual Hiren Gohain; journalist Ajit Kumar Bhuyan; popular singer, composer and actor Zubeen Garg and singer Manas Robin were among others who addressed the protest meet at the Cotton State University, which was attended by different college students.
All speakers were unanimous that the CAB cannot be accepted at any cost and the protests against it will continue till it is withdrawn.
“It is heartening to note that all students’ organisations of the state have protested against the Bill and students of Cotton State University, the region’s premier educational institution, have raised a war cry against the CAB which threatens the very identity of the indigenous people,” Gohain said.
Garg said that no Assamese can accept the CAB.
“I stand with the student community, who came out to protest against the Bill. No students’ organisations have supported the Bill and the BJP government, both at the Centre and the state, should take this into cognsiance and not go ahead with it just for the sake of politics,” he said.
The premier literary organisation Asom Sahitya Sabha, the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti, Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba- Chatra Parishad and major social and political organisations barring the ruling combine of BJP-AGP-BPF, have announced that they will continue to agitate against the bill till it is withdrawn. (PTI)
