Assam: AASU stage protest at BCPL campus over non-fulfillment of demands
The union has been demanding the construction of a Martyr's Park inside the BCPL campus in memory of 855 AASU members who laid their lives during the six-year-long Assam agitation between 1979 to 1985, for sometime.
Members of the All Assam Students' Union (AASU) on Monday staged a two-hour protest in the Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited (BCPL) campus at Lepetkata, Dibrugarh, against the company's failure to fulfill various demands of the students union.
The union has been demanding the construction of a Martyr's Park inside the BCPL campus in memory of 855 AASU members who laid their lives during the six-year-long Assam agitation between 1979 to 1985, for sometime.
"We are giving BCPL authorities 10 days to come with a statement regarding the park or else we will launch an agitation. The BCPL was set up as part of the Assam Accord signed on August 15, 1985. It was because of the Assam agitation that the BCPL is standing here," said Abani Kumar Gogoi, president of the Dibrugarh district AASU unit.
Among other demands, the students' body also sought 100 percent job reservation for indigenous people at the BCPL plant, besides urging the petrochemical plant to develop a green belt to minimise environmental pollution in the area.
The Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited, Dibrugarh was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 5, 2016.
(Edited by Shankar Kumar Turha)
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