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Guwahati, 14th August 2008
The All Assam Students Union (AASU) today sits in a 28 hour long fast from the first dawn to the I-Day flag hosting to be ceremonised tomorrow. The AASU demonstrate the hunger strike against the failure of the both Centre and the state Governments to implement the Assam Accord signed in the midnight of 1985 till date as a part of their month long agitation against the influx problem.
According to agenda taken by the students union, AASU has already staged their agitation at the Regional Pass Port office on 6th of this month and holding many public meeting across the state to create awareness against the in filtered Bangladeshis. "We have already held six public meetings across the state and will be doing more in the other parts also. Yesterday, thousands of people gathered in Sonitpur district where they share their views on the decade’s long problem and through this AASU wants to create a common voice on this influx problem. Today, we staged the hunger strike which will be observed til the flag hosting ceremony of the I-Day in the country to mark the failure of the Governments in implementing the Assam Accord since 1985", said Dr. Sammujjal Bhattacharjee, advisor of AASU.
Citing the verdicts of the Gauhati High Court, AASU asked the Assam Government to have a close eye into the reality. The student union alleged the Chief Minister to be a deaf and dumb in this issue when Shankar Prasad Roy, President of AASU said that Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi is only giving shelter to the in filtered Bangladeshis. "Chief Minister said the Assamese community to re-think the issue and to oblige the law but where gone his respect to the law when the Honourable court has given them the responsibility to scan the state and to deport the Bangladeshis from here. AASU and the GOI had signed the treaty 23 years back but why it’s not yet implemented if the Congress lead government obeys the law?” questioned Roy.
Meanwhile, the Gauhati High Court has the final verdicts to issue on the 66 alleged Bangladeshis who were detected by the authority. The GHC source said that the controversy of identifying the Bangladeshis will be done soon and it will direct the Govt. to make the rule strict and logical. While the chief minister also urged the public to maintain the peace in the region and to act rationally to the problem.
AASU while reacted sharply on the chief minister's view on the matter and said that the central and the local governments are only playing with Assamese sentiments and giving false hopes then to a proper solution. "We will try to act as the Prime Minister is supposed to visit the state on 25th for two days and will render our voice and the public opinion to him", informed Dr. Bhattacharjee. AASU has done the strike today statewide to mark their agitation and requested the Government to follow the Assam Accord norms and to implement it shortly. AASU will also try to build a common statement through the statewide rallies.
