N-E student body preps to block cab

Guwahati: With protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill escalating across the north-east, a powerful North East Students Organisation (NESO) delegation has rushed to New Delhi to drum up support in Parliament to block passage of the controversial bill.

Saying the student leaders have reached New Delhi and were seeking appointments with all NDA and non-NDA political parties to lobby against the CAB, NESO chairman Samuel Jyrwa said they had met senior JDU leader K.C. Tyagi who assured them the JDU would continue to oppose the bill. All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) chief adviser Samujjal Bhattacharyya and its president Dipanka Kumar Nath are also part of the delegation.