JAMUGURIHAT, March 28 – Samujjal Kumar Bhattacharya, adviser of AASU and president of the North East Students’ Organisation (NESO), has vehemently criticised the role played by the State Government on the issue of mega dams.
The AASU adviser’s reaction came at a press conference held at the Swahid Bhavan here recently after completion of the Jeevan Raksha Yatra. The press conference was attended by Anowar Ahmed, president of the Sonitpur AJU, Golap Kalita, president of the Jamuguri Press Club and other print and electronic media correspondents of the locality.
In order to generate awareness and protest against construction of mega dams, 26 ethnic organisations including the AASU and TMPK (Takam Mising Poring Kebang: All Mising Students’ Union) had organised the Jeevan Raksha Yatra and volunteers of the districts units of Dhemaji, Lakhimpur and Sonitpur had taken out a huge bike rally from Jonai on the occasion.
The rally was attended by more than 200 motorcyclists led by Tolaram Gogoi, finance secretary of AASU, Arnold Taye, cultural secretary of AASU and Mahanta Doley, president of the Dhemaji unit of the TMPK. The motocyclists traversed 330 kilometres, resting at Gogamukh and Gohpur before reaching Jamugurihat. They were welcomed by people on their way.
In the meeting organised on the occasion in front of the Swahid Bhavan here which was conducted by Duldul Borkataky, central member of the AASU in the presence of vice president and organiser AASU, Tolaram Gogoi explained the aims and objectives of the Jeevan Raksha Yatra. Bhattacharya, participating as the speaker, said that the Central Government during the last 60 years had hardly given anything except politically neglecting and economically depriving the people of Assam.
Against the advice of the experts, the work on the mega dam in Lower Subansiri has been going on in full swing and another mega dam is in the offing in the Kameng river (Jiabharali) which will bring untold miseries to the people of Sonitpur like the one at Lakhimpur by Ranganadi mega dam, he said.
He also pointed out that through the Power Grid Corporation, a deep-rooted conspiracy had been hatched by the Central Government to take away electric power from Assam to North India, which must be objected to by the people of Assam. He cited the example of torture and reign of terror on the peaceful protesters of Assam such as the arrest and humiliation of Mohendra Hazarika, central member and district organiser of the Asom Sena and Dharmendra Nath, elder brother of Abhijit Nath, district general secretary of the AASU by police on fake charges and condemned such atrocities in the strongest terms.
He also appealed to the people to organise mass movements against mega dams and construction of electric towers in the collective interest of the people of Assam.
The AASU adviser’s reaction came at a press conference held at the Swahid Bhavan here recently after completion of the Jeevan Raksha Yatra. The press conference was attended by Anowar Ahmed, president of the Sonitpur AJU, Golap Kalita, president of the Jamuguri Press Club and other print and electronic media correspondents of the locality.
In order to generate awareness and protest against construction of mega dams, 26 ethnic organisations including the AASU and TMPK (Takam Mising Poring Kebang: All Mising Students’ Union) had organised the Jeevan Raksha Yatra and volunteers of the districts units of Dhemaji, Lakhimpur and Sonitpur had taken out a huge bike rally from Jonai on the occasion.
The rally was attended by more than 200 motorcyclists led by Tolaram Gogoi, finance secretary of AASU, Arnold Taye, cultural secretary of AASU and Mahanta Doley, president of the Dhemaji unit of the TMPK. The motocyclists traversed 330 kilometres, resting at Gogamukh and Gohpur before reaching Jamugurihat. They were welcomed by people on their way.
In the meeting organised on the occasion in front of the Swahid Bhavan here which was conducted by Duldul Borkataky, central member of the AASU in the presence of vice president and organiser AASU, Tolaram Gogoi explained the aims and objectives of the Jeevan Raksha Yatra. Bhattacharya, participating as the speaker, said that the Central Government during the last 60 years had hardly given anything except politically neglecting and economically depriving the people of Assam.
Against the advice of the experts, the work on the mega dam in Lower Subansiri has been going on in full swing and another mega dam is in the offing in the Kameng river (Jiabharali) which will bring untold miseries to the people of Sonitpur like the one at Lakhimpur by Ranganadi mega dam, he said.
He also pointed out that through the Power Grid Corporation, a deep-rooted conspiracy had been hatched by the Central Government to take away electric power from Assam to North India, which must be objected to by the people of Assam. He cited the example of torture and reign of terror on the peaceful protesters of Assam such as the arrest and humiliation of Mohendra Hazarika, central member and district organiser of the Asom Sena and Dharmendra Nath, elder brother of Abhijit Nath, district general secretary of the AASU by police on fake charges and condemned such atrocities in the strongest terms.
He also appealed to the people to organise mass movements against mega dams and construction of electric towers in the collective interest of the people of Assam.
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