The All Assam Students Union (AASU) on Wednesday said that the Government of India will not concede to ‘our demands on a platter’ but ‘we have to fight and struggle for the protection and survival of our indigenous people of the Northeast’.
“The Government of India will not concede to our demands on a platter but we have to fight and struggle for the protection and survival of our ingenious people of the Northeast,” said All Assam Students Union (AASU) chief advisor Samujjal Bhattacharya in New Delhi on Wednesday.
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Bhattacharya who is also the advisor of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 (CAB).
Interestingly, AASU and NESO have decided to work with all ‘secular’ political parties to safeguard the sentiments and interest of the indigenous people of the Northeast.
“We are neither a political organization nor we any party with political intention but we will take of all parties to safeguard the interest of the indigenous people of the Northeast in general and Assam in particular,” said AASU president Dipanka Nath.
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The AASU president said that during the last few days they have met several political parties of south India and north India ‘and they have received positive response’.
For the last couple of weeks, all the leaders of AASU and NESO have been campaigning in the national capital to generate against the citizenship bill. Apart from meeting Congress president Rahul Gandhi, the student leaders also met several other political parties including I, M, JD (U), Shiv Sena, NPP among others.
Samujjal, however, said that NESO wants three more issues to be scrapped that includes notification and order 2015, port entry of the foreigners and long term visa.
“Although government was not able to the Citizenship Amendment Bill, we want that all these three issues should also be resolved,” said Bhattacharya adding, “for this we will continue our democratic movement as well as legal battle in court.”