Centre Should Realize There is a Part of India Beyond Kolkata: AASU Leader Samujjal Bhattacharya

Guwahati, November 18, 2019:

The All Assam Students' Union (AASU) has joined the northeast-wide protests against the proposed Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in Guwahati on Monday. Today, the student bodies intend to inform the Centre that the people of the region shall not accept the Bill at any cost.

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Speaking to Inside Northeast just ahead of the planned protest, AASU's Chief Adviser Samujjal Bhattacharya said that the 'movement' against the Bill will continue if the people of the region are treated like 'second-class citizens' by the Centre. "There were be a Northeast-wide movement, Assam-wide movement, and we won't stay like second-class citizens in our motherland, democratic movement is the way, and we will continue the movement", Bhattacharya said.

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"They want the votebank, the have the numbers, they will bulldoze us, how can we accept this. Northeast is also a part the country. They should realize there is a part of India beyond Kolkata" Bhattacharya has lamented.

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The AASU has spearheaded the protest today in Guwahati, and the organization means to submit a memorandum to the Governor of Assam seeking him to urge the Centre to withdraw the allegedly "communal" Bill, which lapsed in the Rajya Sabha. Earlier, on January 8, the Bill had passed a preliminary test in the lower house.

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