Citizenship bill: Rajnath rings up AASU, seeks to resolve issue via talks

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Press Trust of India Guwahati
Last Updated : Jan 18 2019 | 9:40 PM IST

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has rang up the All Assam Students Union (AASU) spearheading the agitation over the Citizenship Amendment Bill expressing the Centre's desire to resolve the issue through discussions, a statement by the students' body said here Friday.

Talking to Singh, AASU and North East Students Organisation (NESO) Chief Advisor Samujjal Bhattacharyya insisted that the bill "which will make the indigenous people extinct and only protect the Bangladeshis has to be scrapped as desired by the people of Assam and the northeast region."

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First Published: Jan 18 2019 | 9:40 PM IST

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