GUWAHATI: Hundreds of people staged protests against the Centre’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in the capital city on Saturday exactly a year after five persons were killed during the protests.
Protesters vowed to intensify the agitation if the Centre went ahead to implement the CAA, which has been challenged by over 140 petitions in the apex court. Deafening roars of “ami CAA namanu (we will not accept CAA)” reverberated across the city and the state as the day saw people organizing bike rallies in protest against CAA and people from Sadiya to Dhubri paid tributes to five people who died on December 12 last year during protests against the Act.
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GUWAHATI: The AASU (All Assam Students Union) on Saturday demanded a judicial probe into the police firings during the movement opposing the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) in Assam leading to the death of five persons across the State last year.
Two of them are minors, namely Sam Stafford (15 years old resident from Hatigaon in Guwahati) and Dipanjal Das (17 years old from Chaygaon of Kamrup district). The other three martyrs are Iswar Nayak (25) from Udalguri, Abdul Alim (23) from Barpeta and Dwijendra Panging from Dibrugarh. Dipanjal Das has been declared as the first martyr of the anti-CAA movement in Assam by AASU.