Guwahati, Jan 18 (IBNS): Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) took out a torch rally to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016 in Guwahati on Friday evening.
Hundreds of AGP workers and supporters took part in the torch rally beginning from the AGP headquarters at Ambari in the capital city of Assam.
The protesters shouted slogans against the both BJP-led Centre and state government and demanded scrapping of the controversial bill.
AGP had recently snapped ties with the BJP in Assam over the Citizenship bill row.
Three AGP ministers had also submitted their resignations Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal.
AGP leader Birendra Prasad Baishya said the Citizenship Amendment Bill was against our Constitution.
“If this bill is passed, then the indigenous people of Assam will become minority in their own soil. It is our duty to protect our language, identity, culture. With this bill, the BJP-led government is going to destroy the Assamese culture, Assamese language, so we opposing this bill. We have demanded the centre to withdraw the bill immediately,” Baishya said.
Image courtesy AGP website
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