Assam: AASU Calls for 100-Hour ONGC Bandh Protesting Privatisation of Oil Fields

Sibsagar, August 28, 2019:

The Sibsagar Unit of the All Assam Students' Union (AASU) has called a 100-hour ONGC bandh, starting from 5 am on August 28.

The student organization has launched a sit-in-protest at the ONGC office in Sibsagar in Assam. According to reports, the AASU protesters are also not letting the ONGC employees enter the office.

The organization has made a number of demands to the ONGC, and it is expected that the the leaders of the organization will hold a meeting with the ONGC to discuss the demands.

Talking to Inside Northeast, Lurin Jyoti Gogoi, the General Secretary of the AASU, said that the main demand of the AASU is the oil field privatization.

"The future of the ONGC depends on them having control over the Sibsagar oil field and we feel that the field should stay with them. We have demanded that they should not even hand it over in the future. Apart from this, there are some other demands as well", he said.

"They usually give marginal fields which are structurally deficient to private parties, but this particular field is fully functional. Protests have been going on, but we are looking for a resolution to the conflicts of interest, hopefully through dialogues..."

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