CAA protest in Assam; Curfew, broadband internet to go from today
GUWAHATI | DEC 17, 2019:
The Assam Government has decided to completely lift curfew, including night curfew, from Tuesday (Dec 17). Broadband internet services will also be restored from tomorrow, Assam Finance, Health and PWD Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma tweeted Monday night.
Members of the Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) are on a 36-hour hunger strike from December 16. Founding president of Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), Prafulla Kumar Mahanta said prime minister Narendra Modi is not aware of the massive protest against the CAA in Assam.
"The Act has provision where it says no document is required if a particular person is persecuted or not. This is a red carpet welcome to illegal immigrants will have to leave Assam, post May 16," he said. Mahanta, who led the Assam Agitation, said, "If Kerala, Punjab and West Bengal can oppose CAA and say that their governments will not implement it, why can't Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal do the same?" Stating that there is no split in the party after the lone Rajya Sabha member voted in favour of the bill, he said, "If democratic protest is not respected, people will resort to violence. The prime minister and home minister are not above the Constitution. Assam is witnessing a people's awakening. We are also preparing for a long legal battle against CAA," he said.
He clarified that the AGP leadership, after supporting the bill, has decided to move the Supreme Court challenging the Act.