AASU to challenge citizenship bill in SC

December 10, 2019 21:45

The All Assam Students Union (AASU), which is spearheading the anti-Citizenship Amendment Bill protests in the state, on Tuesday said that it will move the Supreme Court against it.

The AASU chief advisor Samujjal Bhattacharya slamming the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the Centre for thrusting the contentious piece of legislation on the people of the North East said it will not be accepted 'under any circumstance'.

"We will take legal recourse to fight the CAB. We have talked to our lawyers and we will move forward in moving the Supreme Court as per their advice.

"We will, however, continue with our democratic movement against the Bill through which the divisive BJP-led government at the Centre is attempting to polarise the North East region ... The bill will take away our rights and we have to agitate against it," Bhattacharya maintained.

Protests against the Bill were held by the Silpi Samaj (artists society) and the general people near the chief minister's official residence, the Raj Bhavan and in front of the student union's office in the city during the 11-hour North East bandh.

The Centre, he alleged, is dividing the north eastern region by giving inner line permit to Manipur in addition to Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland, where it already exists.

It also seeks to keep out of the purview of the Bill the tribal areas of Tripura, Assam and Meghalaya which are under the sixth schedule of the Constitution.

"The seven north eastern states are politically different, but are emotionally one unit. The success of the total shutdown of the entire north east today has proven it," claimed Bhattacharya, who is also the chief advisor of the apex North East Students Organisation (NESO). -- PTI

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