AMN / NEW DELHI
High-lighting the plight of the detention centres in Assam, North East Linguistics and Ethnic Coordination Committee (NELECC), a non-political organisation of Barak Valley on Friday urged the All Assam Students Union (AASU) to review its stand on the Assam Accord.
A 20-member delegation of the NELECC, which is an apparent pro-BJP body, is currently touring the national capital meeting senior Central Ministers and leaders of the BJP, is advocating its support for the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016. The delegation has so far met Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh, Union Minister of States for DoNER, Dr Jitendra Singh and MoS External Affairs Gen (retd) V K Singh, BJP MP Subramanian Swamy besides BJP general secretary in-charge for Assam Ram Madhav.
Addressing media at the Press Club of India, its spokesman Vivek Goenka said that after BJP came to power at the Central and in Assam, Barak Valley has seen huge development.
The NELECC said they support the Immigrants (Expulsion from Assam) Act, 1950, and the two notifications issued by the Centre in 2015. Both the notifications are now part of Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016.
Goenka said that they have come to Delhi to extend their support to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 and high-light the condition of the detention centres in Assam, There are six detention centres in Assam of which one is located in Assam.
About their meeting with Home Minister, Goenka said that they were assured that he would look into their complaints. About the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill he told them that the matter was in the hands of the JPC.
The spokesman claimed that before coming to Delhi, they called on Advisor AASU, Samujjal Bhattacharya and conveyed that they respected the sentiment of AASU and its support for Assam Accord. “However, our views should not be looked in isolation,” they said.
The NELECC urged the AASU to have a re-look on Assam Accord. “We the people of Barak Valley are also inhabitant of Assam and we are also part of Assam,” he said.
Asked whether they made a representation before the JPC when it visited Barak Valley, Goenka said that their organisation was formed only on June 3, though individually they have made submission.