From Guwahati to Jorhat, state rocked by stir against new law

GUWAHATI/JORHAT: Responding to a call by the All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu) and 30 other indigenous organisations, men and women from all walks of life staged a sit-in demonstration across the state against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) on Monday.
Residents of Guwahati gathered at the Latasil playground, chanting slogans against the new law.The demonstrations were simultaneously staged at other public places across Assam from 11am to 2pm. At Tezpur University, students who went to the convocation staged protests against CAA, holding placards against the Act, while examinees appearing for the Gauhati University exam on Monday wore black badges.
Meanwhile in Jorhat, senior citizens staged protests in several parts of the district against the Citizenship Act urging the government to repeal it at the earliest. Aasu’s Jorhat district committee and it’s other regional units at Jorhat town, East Jorhat, West Jorhat, Baligaon, Titabor, Borholla, Teok, Lahing, Dhekiajuli, Nakachari and Mariani spearheaded the agitations.
AASU leader Bijoy Shankar Bordoloi said, “Large number of senior citizens took part in the programmes and staged dharna at their respective venues. The senior citizens also shouted slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, the BJP and the RSS for bringing the new law.”
He added, “People, irrespective of caste, community, religion and sex, gathered for the meetings and unanimously said that the act is against the indigenous people of Assam and the northeast. They also criticised the Sonowal government for its recent announcement that the state will soon bring in measures to protect the indigenous people. They said that the government is trying to persuade the people of the state by using muscle power and dividing them by making false promises.”
The demonstrations also included other organisations like the Jorhat district senior citizen sanmilan, Jorhat district pensioners association, North Jorhat senior citizens association, Asomiya Bengali Samaj and the North Eastern Maruari Samaj among others.