Thousands turned up at Guwahati’s Latasil playground on Wednesday to attend what the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) christened as a “Khilonjiya’s Bojro Ninaad” or “lightning call of the indigenous Assamese” against the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, which will be put to vote in the Rajya Sabha at the end of the month.
Like in all their previous protests against the Bill, this one, too, was marked by vociferous sloganeering and speeches that denounced the BJP government, demanding that they scrap the Bill which seeks to “threaten the very existence of the Assamese community”.