| SC decision would protect indigenous people: AASU | |
Guwahati, July 12: Hailing the Supreme Court verdict scrapping IMDT Act as an "important" first step towards clearing Assam of Bangladeshis, the All Assam Students Union today celebrated the ruling by blowing trumpets and bursting crackers. For AASU, which spearheaded a six-year long bloody anti-foreigners agitation in the eighties, the sc decision was a vindication of their stand that IMDT had failed to solve the problem caused by large scale influx of Bangladeshis. "This is an important first step towards clearing Assam from the clutches of the Bangladeshis as the procedure under the foreigners act things will be more simple,” its advisor Dr Samujjal Bhattacharya told news agencies in an interview here. "The decision of the court has again brought to the limelight the issues raised by the student body and will definitely protect the rights of the indegenous people as infiltration had threatened the demographic pattern of the state,” he said. Lambasting the ruling Congress as well as opposition AGP and BJP for failure to protect the rights of indigenous people, Bhattacharya who is also the chairman of the North East Students Organisation (NESO) alleged the political parties had never fought for the state's cause as the IMDT was only applicable in Assam. Bureau Report | |
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