ASSAM TIMES POST
Guwahati : Targeting Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, the All Assam Students Union general secretary Luring Jyoti Gogoi on Monday addressing an anti Citizenship Amendment Act protest rally here asked if the Minister is seeking to win the Nobel Peace Prize through his peace rallies with the protection of police, Rapid Action Force.
Making a passionate speech to the loud clapping of the mammoth gathering, Gogoi said: “With police, Rapid Action Force is Himanta Biswa Sarma seeking to win the Nobel Peace Prize through his peace rallies. I am surprised by it. Peace does not come that way. Who is bringing unrest to the state…you all are bring in disquiet to the state”.
“You say in all your meetings that there is hail of stone pelting and burning of tyres, pelting of stones at the Chief Minister’s house. That will happen as is expression of the people’s anger and angst at you imposing the CAA on them. The chief minister repeatedly accuses the people, we ask him to stop doing that”, the AASU leader said.
Referring to the five persons who died during firing when anti-CAA protests turned violent on December 11 in Guwahati, the AASU leader attacked Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal urging him to refrain from repeatedly saying tyres were burnt.
“You have not heard the cries of the martyrs’ mothers. In one hour you shot dead five young persons, including minors. In such a situation if you have any humanism left in you, don’t make such statements. instead if you have the courage declare the five martyrs”.
Replying to the Chief Minister asking in the BJP peace rallies what mistake he has made for the people to isolate the government, Gogoi said when Sonowal was AASU president for eight years he would carry a bag which contained the historic Assam Accord “reddened with the blood of 855 martyrs of Assam Agitation. From the AASU platform he had asserted a foreigner whether Hindu or Muslim is a foreigner. When he got the chief minister’s chair and became power hungry, he suddenly forgot the Accord which was his holy book then.”
Stating Assam on behalf of the country took the burden of both Hindu and Muslim foreigners till March 25, 1971 as per the Assam Accord, he said now the additional burden till December 2014 as per CAA will not be taken in here as Indian citizens.
Appealing the people to politically isolate the ruling party, the AASU leader said, “our country is a democracy and people are supreme here”.
AASU chief advisor Dr Samujjal Bhattacharya asserting the people of Assam will never accept CAA accused Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma of misleading the people as the Assam Accord has legal and constitutional validity.
Bhatacharya claimed the settlement of Hindu Bangladeshis in Assam through CAA “is a hidden agenda of BJP and thereby it will polarise the voters on religious ground in coming all elections in Assam negatively impacting the Assamese people, their language and culture”.
