AASU to organise musical protest to mark ‘dark’ CAA anniversary
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The organisation can even demand justice for 5 individuals killed throughout widespread violence in December 2019
The All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) has deliberate a musical protest on December 12 to mark the ‘dark’ anniversary of the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019.
The AASU has dubbed the State-wide protest as ‘Gana Hunkaar’ (public cry) however voices towards the “anti-indigenous” Act can be raised by conventional and folks musical devices, leaders of the outfit stated.
President Ram Nath Kovind on December 12, 2019, gave his assent to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill that the Rajya Sabha had handed the day before today triggering protests throughout Assam and the adjoining States within the northeast.
Anger in Assam had been brewing since December 9, 2019, when the Lok Sabha had cleared the Bill. The protests took a violent flip two days later as mobs went on the rampage, destroying personal and public property.
The police opened fireplace on mobs and 5 folks had been killed within the resultant melee.
“New Delhi imposed this anti-Assam legislation on us last year and barbarically tried to crush the people’s agitation through the police. Five innocent people, including a school student, were killed in the police firing on the protesters,” AASU president Dipanka Kumar Nath stated.
“Apart from demanding the scrapping of the CAA, we will also seek justice the families of these five martyrs are yet to get,” he added.
In March, the Assam authorities claimed three folks and never 5 had died in police firing. The State’s Parliamentary Affairs Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary advised the 126-member Assembly that two had been killed in assaults by miscreants.
The two had been Dipanjol Das and Azizur Rahman. The three killed in firing are Ishwar Nayak, Dwijendra Panging and Sam Stafford, a 16-year-old college scholar.
A complete of 430 anti-CAA protest-related instances had been registered and 573 folks had been arrested throughout Assam. Of them, 384 obtained bail and 189 had been in jail, the Minister had stated.
Peasant rights activist Akhil Gogoi was arrested through the peak of the anti-CAA motion on prices of instigating rioters. He has been in jail since.
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