Guwahati, May 8: The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) today announced of pulling out of the BJP-led coalition government in Assam, if the Centres moves ahead to pass the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, in the Parliament.
“The moment the Bill is passed in the Parliament, the AGP will come out of the government in Assam,” senior AGP leader Kamala Kanta Kalita told reporters here after a meeting of the party’s ministers, legislators and leaders.
The meeting, held at the AGP legislature party room at the state legislative assembly premise, was attended by all three ministers of the party, including party president Atul Bora.
Kalita said the party will exert maximum pressure on the BJP-led NDA government in the Centre not to press ahead with the Bill, but in the event of the Centre pushing to translate it into legislation, AGP will break its alliance with the BJP.
He further said the AGP will work to garner further public opinion against the Bill and will launch a campaign to collect 50 lakh signatures against it and submit to the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) constituted to look into the Bill.
The AGP had made a representation before the JPC at its public hearing here yesterday, opposing the Bill.
It has been demanding that the cut-off date for identification for illegal migrants to the state should be March 25, 1971, as per Assam Accord, and not pushed ahead till December, 2014, for certain religious groups as proposed by the amendment.
The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, was introduced in the Lok Sabha in July, 2016, to amend the Citizenship Act, 1955, to make illegal migrants from six religious communities – Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Parsis, Jains and Christians -- from select neighbouring countries eligible for Indian citizenship. UNI
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