Shillong, October 5 (MExN): The North East Forum for Indigenous People (NEFIP) expressed its appreciation to the State Members for successfully launching its movement against Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 in their respective states.
The protests sent a “clear message to the Central leadership and projecting the ground scenario of the state to their respective Government of the day in a befitting manner,” stated a press communiqué from Khuraijam Athouba Secretary Media, NEFIP.
On October 3, protesters took to the streets many state’s capital in North East including Kohima, Itanagar and Imphal raising slogans and displaying placards against the central government and the CAB.
The NEFIP also appreciated “participation of the CSOs, Print and Media fraternity, different walks of life and general public for their voluntary participation in the Region’s movement against the Monster Bill that threatens the demography of the entire region with force assimilation to destroy our rich culture, custom, lifestyle and our very existence,” it said.
The Forum also fully endorsed the initiative by Mizo Students' Union to protest and submit a memorandum to the Union Home Minister Amit Shah on his visit to Mizoram on October 5, it added.
Meanwhile, NEFIP further asserted that the “notorious hidden agenda of the bill exposed the design that will polarise the people on religious group and to annihilate religious minority groups.”
“This is total contravention to the basic secular principles of the Constitution of India and the fundamental rights of the citizens curtailing freedom of religion and practices is visibly evil and must be rejected at all cause,” it added.
The Forum also expressed its belief that India will restrain from this cultural, religion and economic invasion on the minority groups and rise on the occasion to defend the slogan ‘One for All and All for One’
