Two days after the violence in Assam’s Dhemaji district, All Assam Students Union (Aasu) on Wednesday asked the BJP-led Government in Assam to prove its commitment to protect the identity of Assamese people by arresting Subodh Biswas within 12 hours
Biswas, the national president of Nikhil Bharat Bengali Uddastu Samannay Samiti (NBBUSS), was declared wanted by Assam police for his alleged role in the Monday’s incident at Silapathar town in Assam’s Dhemaji district where a mob including some members of the NBBUSS attacked and vandalised an office of the Aasu.
The police in Dhemaji district had already arrested nine people for their alleged role in the act of vandalism and search is on for Biswas, who reportedly delivered speech that incited the mob to attack and vandalize the Aasu office.
“It’s been two days and the police haven’t been able to arrest him. The BJP led Assam government often talks about the protection of Assamese people, their land and culture. We dare him to him to prove the commitment by ensuring arrest of Biswas within 12 hours,” said AASU general secretary lurinjyoti Gogoi while talking to media in Silapathar.
Hundreds of civil society organizations and students’ bodies of the state have extended their support to the Aasu against the act of vandalism by the NBBUSS. The Aasu activists have been staging protests in several parts of the state ever since the incident. The State Assembly on Wednesday sent a nine-member and all-party delegation of MlAs to Silapathar.
Meanwhile, former chief minister Tarun Gogoi today blamed the BJP led government in Assam for the whole incident and said that it is the BJP led Assam government that facilitated Biswas’s escape fro m Silapathar immediately after the incident. His accusation stemmed from photographs carried in a section of local dailies featuring Biswas along with Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari and other BJP leaders from the state.
Assam government had already constituted an One Man Inquiry Committee headed by the Additional Chief Secretary VB Pyarelal to inquire the circumstances leading to the incidence of violence erupted at Silapathar town on Monday. The One Man Inquiry Committee will ascertain the facts and circumstances leading to the said incidence of violence and will fix responsibilityafter ascertaining if any individual or organisation is involved in the violence.
Assam Governor B l Purohit also condemned the act of vandalism and said that perpetrators of the crime would be dealt with sternly. Purohit also appealed to people to not take law in their hands and that peace and harmony be maintained at any cost.