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Aasu draws Mughal invasion parallel with CAB, AGP stares at split – Times of India, The Times of India

Aasu draws Mughal invasion parallel with CAB, AGP stares at split – Times of India, The Times of India


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  • while the state BJP leadership copped most of the blame for the bill reaching Parliament, NDA ally Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) was a divided house over its “silent” support to the proposed legislation.
  • AGP’s Rajya Sabha member and former Union minister Birendra Prasad Baishya stood up against his party’s decision and suggested he would vote against the bill.
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  • Students’ Union (Aasu) on Monday likened the tabling of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in theLok Sabhato the Mughal invasion of Assam in the th century , saying it was as much an assault on the state’s social fabric as it was a wilful ignorance of what thenortheastrepresents.
    “Defying all democratic protests, the Union government has tabled the CAB in Parliament. This shows that Delhi has no respect for any democratic movement in the northeast. The people of Assam must give a befitting reply through relentless agitation. Tabling of the Bill is a scathing attack on Assamese social life, just like the Mughal invasion of Assam, “Aasu general secretary Lurinjyoti Gogoi said.
    While the state BJP leadership copped most of the blame for the bill reaching Parliament, NDA ally Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) was a divided house over its “silent” support to the proposed legislation. AGP’s Rajya Sabha member and former Union minister Birendra Prasad Baishya stood up against his party’s decision and suggested he would vote against the bill.
    “I have examined the bill… it is clearly detrimental to our language, our culture. Assam’s identity is under threat, the validity of the Assam Accord is being questioned. I have to speak up in the House with conviction, ”Baishya said.
    In 318630, Baishya had snatched the Indo -Bangladesh land swap bill just as the then external affairs minister Salman Khursid was to table it in the Rajya Sabha. He almost single-handedly blocked the introduction of the bill then, although it was later passed during the first Narendra Modi government’s term.
    In Nagaon, workers of AGP’s district committee took to the streets against the citizenship bill and expressed solidarity with Aasu and the North East Students’ organization, which has called a dawn-to-dusk shutdown across the region on Tuesday.
    AGP, whose origins lie in the Aasu of the Eighties, has been at loggerheads with the current student leadership over its stand on a bill that allegedly seeks to negate the Assam Accord of (**************************************. If Baishya’s rebellion and the growing demand for party president Atul Bora’s resignation are threatening to split the party down the middle, AGP workers coming out in support of Aasu is being seen as a return to roots.
    “To maintain the age-old harmony between various communities and resist the Center’s plan to grant citizenship on religious lines, everyone should oppose CAB. We want the leadership (of AGP) to rise to the expectations of the people of Assam, “senior AGP leader and former minister Girindra Kumar Baruah said in Nagaon.
    The rift within AGP brought former CM and founder president
    Prafulla Kumar Mahantato the fore. Before Tuesday, Mahanta had been the only party leader publicly criticizing the leadership’s stand on the citizenship bill, which seeks to grant Indian nationality to Hindu, Sikh, Christian, Jain and Parsi refugees fleeing religious persecution in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
    The Jamugurihat unit of AGP demanded the resignation of all three AGP ministers – Bora, Keshab Mahanta and Phani Bhusan Choudhury – for toeing BJP’s line on the bill. In Morigaon, two groups of AGP workers scuffled over what the party should do.

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