CAA Rules: Assam Students' Union To Hold Statewide Satyagraha Today

The All Assam Students' Union will hold a 'satyagraha' in all the district headquarters of the state to protest against the CAA.

All Assam Students' Union to hold statewide 'satyagraha' today against CAA/Representaion

Source : PTI

A 'satyagraha' will be launched by All Assam Students' Union across the state on Wednesday against the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act. Opposition parties such as Congress and several other organisations have been staging anti-CAA protests in the state for the last two days. 

The satyagraha by AASU will be held in all the district's headquarters during the day, said a leader of the students' organisation, as per a PTI report. 

Before the satyagraha, the students' union took out a torchlight procession in several parts of the state on Tuesday evening. 

On Tuesday, a delegation of the students' union went to Delhi to pursue the petition against the Act in the Supreme Court. 

An interlocutory application was also filed by the leader of the opposition in the Assam assembly Debabrata Saikia in the apex court, seeking a stay on the implementation of the Act. 

The contentious law has been opposed by several student and non-political indigenous organisations along with opposition political parties in the state, claiming that it violates the provision of the 1985 Assam Accord.

The accord called for the "detection and deportation" of all people who entered the state from Bangladesh after March 24, 1971. 

The Centre notified the rules of the CAA on Monday night implying that the Modi government will now grant Indian nationality to persecuted Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, and Christians migrants — except Muslims — from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh who came to India till December 31, 2014. 

On Tuesday, the 16-party United Opposition Forum Assam (UOFA) called a 12-hour 'Sarbatamak Hartal', but it did not evoke much response. 

In the wake of the anti-CAA protest, the Assam Police issued notices to opposition parties, asking them to withdraw the hartal warning that "legal action" would be taken against them if they failed to follow the diktat. 

"Notices were served by the Assam Police to ensure that there is no damage to public property and risk to the life of the people through any forceful agitation in the state," Director General of Police G P Singh had said.

Meanwhile, security has been stepped up across the state deploying additional troops of police personnel including commandos in sensitive areas, while all police stations are on an alert, a senior officer said. 

Patrolling has also been intensified and check-posts have been set up on major thoroughfares in almost all the cities and towns of Assam where widespread protests against CAA took place in 2019.