Will oppose CAA, Rahul vows at first election rally in Assam | India News – Times of India

GUWAHATI: Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi started his marketing campaign for the upcoming Assam meeting election on Valentine’s Day on Sunday by interesting to Assamese sentiments and promising to the massive gathering in higher Assam’s historic Sivasagar city that the occasion would defend the Assam Accord and resist the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) at any value.
Boarding Field, which was brimming with supporters, reverberated with the favored slogan of the Assam Agitation of the Nineteen Eighties — ‘ Ahoi Aah Olai Aah, Khedoi Khed Bideshik Khed’ (interesting to locals to return out of their houses and drive out unlawful migrants) — as Rahul, carrying an indigenous pink-and-white woven scarf, popularly referred to as gamosa, addressed the rally.
Interestingly, the gamosa, typically seen spherical PM Modi’s neck, was used as a protest image right here with supporters placing a cross mark on them saying no to CAA.
“The Assam Accord brought peace to the state. The principles of the accord will be defended by me and the Congress party. We won’t step back even an inch.” stated Rahul.
Unlike in West Bengal, BJP has gone virtually silent on CAA in Assam, the place violent protests rocked the state over the brand new regulation. Rahul stated the Congress would educate a lesson to those that have tried to breach the 1985 accord by bringing in CAA.
The laws, protesting organizations really feel, will flip Assam right into a land of unlawful ‘foreigners’ as it’ll regularize the entry of unlawful non-Muslim Bangladeshis, who sneaked into Assam put up 1971, the minimize-off 12 months for the detection and deportation of unlawful foreigners from the state as endorsed in the accord.