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Protests to pave path for AASU?s Asom Sena
Date: December 3, 2005 •
Views: • There is/are 0 comment(s). Source / copyright: By A Staff Reporter / The Telegraph Sections: Uncategorized Guwahati, Dec. 2: Just days before launching its Asom Sena, the All Assam Students? Union (AASU) today upped the ante by announcing a series of agitation programmes against the government on various issues. The announcement came a day after it set a December deadline for Dispur to take concrete steps to implement the decisions on the tripartite talks it had with the Centre and the state government on the Assam Accord earlier this year. Demanding scrapping of Clause 3 (1) A and B of the Citizenship Act that grants citizenship to children of foreigners who have entered the country by 2004, the influential student body will be holding a satyagraha on December 12, said its president Shankar Prasad Rai. The AASU has been maintaining that citizenship on the basis of birth should not be granted to any illegal immigrant. ?We will not tolerate any move to grant citizenship to the children of any illegal immigrant and we will take bold steps to prevent such a move,? AASU adviser Samujjal Bhattacharyya said. The students? body will also hold a demonstration on December 17 demanding a proper probe into all the cases of secret killings. It further decided to protest against the continuous influx from across the border by ?forming a human chain? along the Indo-Bangla border in the Karimganj and Dhubri sectors. However, the date of the programme has not been fixed yet. The AASU has also lined up agitation programmes against tea companies, saying they were not protecting local interest. It will observe December 5 and 6 as ?demand days? in support of ?adequate? recruitment of local youth in the tea gardens. The union said tea gardens should, as far as possible, locally procure their requisite materials. AASU general secretary Tapan Kumar Gogoi said they had yesterday sent a communiqu? to chief minister Tarun Gogoi expressing their displeasure over the slow progress in implementing the decisions arrived at in the tripartite talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. A five-member AASU delegation had held the meeting with the Prime Minister in the presence of Gogoi on May 5. In the meeting, Singh had promised to implement the accord within a specific timeframe. The AASU and the Asom Unnati Sabha will launch the Asom Sena in Barpeta on December 8 to protect the rights of the indigenous people.  • Development funds for Assam (May 20, 2006): The Ministry of Rural Development has released Rs 74.52 lakh to Assam under Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water Mission for implementation of Information, Education and Communication (IEC) activities in four districts namely, Cachar, Hailakand ... More
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Sections: Economy / Tripura • Blow to Bodo unity hope (December 5, 2005): Prospects of a reconciliation between bickering Bodo political leaders evaporated today as a ?special political convention? got under way in Kokrajhar, one that is expected to lead to the formation of a parallel set-up of the Bodoland People?s Progressive Front (BPPF).
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