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AASU unit rallies against price rise of commodities in Guwahati
The Kamrup (metro) unit of AASU on Saturday, staged a rally and also carried out a procession protesting the sharp rise in prices of fuel and essential commodities.
STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: The Kamrup (metro) unit of AASU (All Assam Students Union), on Saturday, staged a rally and also carried out a procession protesting the sharp rise in prices of fuel and essential commodities.
The AASU members first held the rally at Swahid Nyas at Uzan Bazar. Then the protestors shouting slogans against the government took out a procession. They carried placards, empty gas cylinders, and some also wore garlands made of onions and potatoes while demanding control of the steep hike in prices of the essential commodities. Some protestors even banged the steel plates and tumblers during the occasion.
STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: The All Assam Students Union (AASU) took out a massive torchlight rally from Swahid Nyas at Uzan Bazar here on Friday evening to register its protests and opposition against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). Such rallies were also carried from different parts of the State.
The City Police made elaborate security arrangements in and around Swaid Nyas premises on Friday and prevented the torchlight rally soon after it was taken out by top AASU leaders and workers.
AASU chief advisor Dr Samujjal Bhattacharjya, while condemning the police and Assam Government to prevent the students organization to take out the torchlight rally in a peaceful and democratic ways, demanded that the government to give exemplary punishment to the police officials responsible for the brutal killing of two youths –Sam Stafford and Dipanjal Das – on the city streets during the anti-CAA movement.
All Assam Students Union organises torch light rally to protest Citizenship Amendment Act
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In Tezpur police had to resort to baton charge to control the protestors. Superintendent of police, Sonitpur Mugdha Jyoti Mahanta told ET, “ There was stone pelting in the security personnel and police had to baton charge to control the mob.”
PTI
GUWAHATI: Protesting against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)and Prime minister Narendra Modi and Union Home minister Amit Shah’s Assam visit, All Assam Students Union (AASU) organised a torch light rally across the state.
At different places AASU supporters and police personnel were engaged in bitter verbal duels. Police had put barricades in different places asking the AASU supporters to refrain from torch light rally.