All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) on December 3 told Union Home Minister Amit Shah that the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) will not be accepted in Assam, reports The Sentinel. AASU advisor Samujjal Bhattacharya stated that “We have told Home Minister that Assam will not accept CAB as it violates the basic principles of the Assam Accord”. He also added that “In the vision document prepared by BJP ahead of the last Assembly elections, the party told that they will implement all clauses of the Assam Accord. But now there is no talk on Assam Accord… they only want the CAB to get passed,”. He also added that the Government must implement clause 6 of Assam Accord.
Additionally, Assam Sahitya Sabha President Paramananda Rajbongshi on December 3 appealed to all civil society organisations and youths to oppose CAB, reports The Telegraph. Rajbongshi said the apex literary body of Assam was as worried about the bill as any other organisation of the state and would never support the proposed law. He added that “We strongly opposed the bill in front of both the joint parliamentary committee headed by MP Rajendra Agrawal and the select committee headed by MP Satya Pal Singh and during our meeting with Union home minister Amit Shah in Delhi on Saturday. We made it very clear that the bill was not acceptable as it would change the demography, culture and linguistic features of Assam and diminish the land and economic space of the indigenous people. We will continue to oppose it,”