Source: The Sangai Express
Guwahati, November 25:
The powerful North East Students Organisation has decided to move the international fora, including the UN, seeking repeal of the controversial IMDT Act from Assam and the Armed Forces Special Powers Act from Assam and Manipur.
The doors of the international fora were being knocked as the Centre failed to take any concrete step to revoke the two Acts "throwing the identity of the people of the Northeast into peril," chairman of the students body Samujjal Bhattacharya alleged.
"It is a question of the survival of the people here," he told reporters here.
The NESO is an umbrella organisation comprising the All Assam Students Union (AASU) and all student unions in the North Eastern region.
The student organisation would now network and lobby with international organisations and the United Nations to highlight the "dangers of the IMDT which was discriminatory and assisted the Pakistani ISI to operate in the region," he said.
Asserting "the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act must go", Bhattacharya said, a team of the NESO recently attended a joint meeting on the 'Impact of terrorism and anti-terrorism measures in Asia' hosted by Forum Asia and Suaram in Bangkok on November 19.There the N-E students� team presented a paper which included the Group of Ministers, Law Commission and former Assam Governor Lt Gen (retd) SK Sinha's report on infiltration in Assam from Bangladesh.