Protests Against Caa Should Continue: Zubeen Garg | Guwahati News - Times of India

Source: The Times of India

Guwahati: Popular singer Zubeen Garg has said the people of Assam would never accept the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA, and protests against it should continue but without any bloodshed.

He said he will continue opposing it on various forums, and also urged for concerted efforts in winning the legal battle to get the Act scrapped. In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Garg said he has been opposing the Act right from 2017, when it was a bill, and he remains firm on his stand.

He said while protesting against CAA was necessary, there were various ways to do so.Noting that the state has seen many deaths during many such movements, be it the Assam Agitation or the 2019 anti-CAA demonstrations when five youths died, he said no more deaths should be allowed to happen due to protests.

"I will continue protesting against CAA in my own ways. On stage or on social media -- wherever, however I can," Garg, considered a youth icon in the state, said.

He said the govt was trying to "impose" the CAA, but the people of the state would never accept it. He said there was no room for any Hindu-Muslim divide in Assam, and only the people of Assam and India would stay here, not from anywhere else. Talking of the petition in the Supreme Court, he said all should come together to fight the legal battle and repose faith in the judiciary. PTI