Congress guarantees to construct anti-CAA memorial if voted to energy

Ahead of the meeting elections in Assam, the Congress get together appears to be all set to fire up anti-CAA protests within the state once more because it introduced that they’d construct a memorial to commemorate the ‘martyrdom’ of anti-CAA protests killed in Assam if voted to energy.
“After winning the election, we shall make a memorial for the anti-CAA people’s movement that has been ongoing in Assam over the last few years. The memorial shall remember the people’s struggle and sacrifices, protest songs and paintings,” mentioned Pradyut Bordoloi, chairman of the Congress marketing campaign committee.
Echoing the identical, Assam Pradesh Congress Committee President Ripun Bora additionally added that the grand memorial can be constructed within the capital metropolis Guwahati. “In the coming months, Guwahati will see a new landmark — a grand memorial in memory of the anti-CAA movement to be built by the incoming Congress government. This will be the state’s message to BJP. No CAA in Assam,” Bora mentioned.
Reportedly, the Congress leaders have picked up the anti-CAA plank in Assam forward of the elections and campaigned in all 126 constituencies by means of “Axom Basaon Ahok” (Let’s Save Assam) Yatra.
CAA violates Assam Accord, claims Rahul Gandhi
The assertion from the state Congress management is coming simply two days after Gandhi-scion Rahul Gandhi had claimed that his get together will respect the Assam Accord and won’t implement the “botched-up CAA” if sworn to energy.
Following the Citizenship Amendment Act by the Modi authorities in December 2019 to grant citizenship to the six persecuted minorities from the three neighbouring Islamic nations, large-scale violence had erupted in Assam towards the CAA that led to the demise of 5 protestors. The CAA and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) are delicate points in Assam, which borders Bangladesh.
It is believed that the implementation of CAA would violate the Assam Accord of 1985, which promised to detect and deport the foreigners with March 24, 1971, because the closing date.
Contrary to that, the CAA would assure citizenship to the Bengali Hindu neighborhood located in Barak valley (South Assam). Hindu Bengalis, who’re residing in South Assam and missed the Supreme Court-monitored NRC, are prone to profit from the CAA and are thought-about a serious vote financial institution within the area.