Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the controversial citizenship bill 2016 will soon be passed in Parliament, two prominent organisations in Assam reacted strongly and urged the people of the state to defeat the BJP in the coming Lok Sabha polls.
The All Assam Students' Union (AASU) and Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) bringing in the bill is "undemocratic and unconstitutional".
Reiterating that the Assam Accord of 1985 be implemented in toto, both the AASU and the KMSS said they will launch an agitation against the proposed move.
The AASU said it will start a legal battle as well if the bill is passed by Parliament.
"The BJP has cheated and betrayed the people of Assam. This bill will harm the secular fabric of the Constitution," AASU general secretary Lurinjyoti Gogoi told PTI.
The prime minister's speech proved that the BJP does not give any importance and respect to the people living in a federal structure or their voice, he added.
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The AASU has been protesting against the bill and saying it cannot be accepted. "Still, the BJP is moving ahead autocratically and undemocratically.
"My request at this time is that people of Assam should teach a lesson to the BJP," Gogoi said.
The state has a BJP-led government since 2016. The party and its allies are targeting to win 11 of the 14 Lok Sabha seats this time.
Continuing his attack on the saffron party, the student union leader said in 2014 when the Modi government came to power, the BJP had promised to send back all illegal Bangladeshis. "But now they are being welcomed only for votes."