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Hunger strike against Citizenship Bill on May 29

GUWAHATI : Demanding withdrawal of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016, constitutional safeguard for the indigenous people of Assam implementation of the Assam Accord and sealing of the Indo-Bangladesh border, the All Assam Students Union (AASU) and 28 organisations representing different ethnic communities of the State would sit for a mass hunger strike here on May 29.

In the first half of June, 2018, a movement will also be organised in Guwahati and spread across the State to amplify the demand. This movement has been named as 'Gana Satyagraha'.

The ethnic bodies have appealed the like-minded public organisations, induividuals, women's group, etc., to join the mass movement that would continue throughout the State.

All the 29 organisations would sit for a meeting on 2nd June, 2018 to decide further course of action to take up this movement forward.

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