Assam organisations burn Mamata Banerjee's effigy
Guwahati, Aug 4 (IBNS): Protesting against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s remarks on the final draft of NRC in Assam, various local organisations burnt her effigies in Morigaon and Sonitpur districts.
In central Assam’s Morigaon town, leaders and workers of the Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuva Chatra Parishad and Khilanjia Suraksha Samitee marched in the town and burnt Banerjee's effigy.
A similar report came from Tejpur, where workers of Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuva Sanmilan organised a protest demonstration.
Alleging discrimination after 40 lakh people were excluded from the complete NRC draft published on July 30, Mamata Banerjee said that this might lead to a civil war and bloodbath.
She alleged that the people of particular communities were being discriminated against despite they being Indians.
On August 2, Three police personnel including two women constables were injured allegedly in a scuffle when Assam police tried to prevent the members of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITMC) delegation from going out of the Kumbhirgram airport in Barak Valley’s Silchar after they arrived there to assess the situation in Assam in the wake of the publication of the complete NRC drat.
The Assam organisations warned the West Bengal Chief Minister against creating any disturbance in Assam on the NRC issue.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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