Assam CM Sonowal criticizes anti-CAB agitations

Sonowal said: “You (agitators) should try to learn lessons from the previous movements, agitations. Without work culture, no community can show their superiority at the world stage. Ethnic selfishness is not protected by staging agitation on the streets.”

Laying the foundation stone of 1400 meter long T-shaped double-lane flyover on the Guwahati-Shillong (GS) road  on Sunday, the Assam Chief Minister said the young generation of the state must endeavour to put Assam strongly at the world stage with hardwork, dedication, honesty and sincerity and they must not while away the most productive time of their lives in movements and agitations.

“Building a robust work culture in the state should be the prime objective of everyone and youths must not be misled to join agitations based on concocted and baseless grounds,” Sonowal said.

Assuring the people that the present State Government, which was formed by indigenous people of the state, would not do not anything to jeopardise the identity of the Assamese race, Sonowal urged the youth to follow the motto of ‘work is worship and duty is god’ and devote their time and energy in achieving excellence in all fields as the world has become very competitive.

“Positive change in the society would not come through agitations and movements but it would come through hard work and dedication as demonstrated by the state government in the last three and half years,” Sonowal said.

“No work done by our government which is against the Assamese community and will not in future. Our government is working from the beginning to protect the Assamese community and the people of Assam witnessed it,” Sonowal said.

On the other hand, Assam Finance minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma also criticized the ongoing movement against Citizenship (Amendment) Bill and challenged the agitators to stage protest against those who encroached the lands of various religious places of the state, involved in various crimes.

“Will we stage protest against the 5 lakh people who came into Assam by taking shelter as threats upon their lives or will stage protest against those people who raped our sisters, encroached our religious places lands. The people of Assam will have to decide it,” Himanta said.

The Assam Finance minister asserted that after a long time Assam was going through one of the sustained periods of peace and development and some forces inimical to the state’s interest were trying to create rifts between different communities and stall the development initiatives of the government.

Himanta Biswa Sarma urged the people not to allow these forces to succeed as Assam witnessed lots of agitations and movements in the last 40-50 years which kept the state underdeveloped.

(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)