New Delhi: Several Anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) organisations from Assam paid tributes to the five protestors who lost their lives during the ant-CAA protest two years ago and resolved to resume the movement against the Act.
Memorial meetings were held at a playground in Guwahati and at the residence of Sam Stafford, one of the protestors who died during the stir. The attendees vowed to once again intensify the protest against the CAA, reported PTI.
The first group to organise protests against the CAA after it was passed in the Parliament, the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) paid tributes to the protestors at Sam Stafford’s Hatigao residence.
Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti leader during the protest and MLA from Sibsagar, Akhil Gogoi who was jailed for his role in the protest paid floral tributes at the photographs of the deceased protestors. He said that the political parties and nationalist organisations must take the lead and resume the movement.
Talking about the artiste community that took the centre stage during the 2019 protests, Gogoi said, "We can't expect them to organise agitations. Their help is crucial but they shouldn't be blamed for not reviving the movement."
Another key member of the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) organised a memorial at the Hatigaon Higher Secondary School playground.
Speaking on the occasion, AASU chief advisor Samujjal Kumar Bhattacharya said that the movement has not died out but the intensity got lowered due to the commencement of exams and pandemic lockdown.
"It is wrong to say that the anti-CAA movement has died out. It had lost its intensity due to the commencement of examinations (in January 2020) and then the pandemic and lockdowns," he said.
Bhattacharya said that the movement will once again be pan-Northeast like it was in 2019.
"We will resume the agitation with full intensity once again. We won't let the sacrifices go in vain," he added.
(With PTI Inputs)