AGP’s Hunger Strike To Oppose Citizenship Bill

Guwahati, 24 January 2019:

Agitation against the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 continues to intensify in the northeast region of India as Assam BJP’s ally and the state’s biggest regional party Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) is staging a massive hunger strike in Guwahati to oppose the Bill.

A number of influential leaders from AGP including a number of intellectuals and literates from the state have joined the hunger strike that is being organized near Dighalipukhuri in Guwahati.

Party president Atul Bora along with leaders Keshab Mahanta, Brindaban Goswami, Ramendra Narayan Kalita, Dilip Patgiri, Satyabrata Kalita are present in the strike.

They were also joined by noted intellectual Dr. Hiren Gohain and Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) leader Akhil Gogoi among others.

The regional party, recently, broke its alliance with the ruling BJP party for failing to address the issue of the indigenous people and forcefully pushing the Citizenship Bill on the people.

“We will continue to fight against the Bill and do everything to scrap it. The Citizenship Bill violates the Assam accord which clearly states that all Bangla migrants, Hindu or Muslim, who entered after March 24, 1971, are foreigners,” AGP president Atul Bora was quoted as saying.