Leader of the Opposition in the ALA Debabrata Saikia has urged Speaker Biswajit Daimary to…
Sarbananda Sonowal-led government fomenting public unrest in the state: Assam leader of opposition
Sarbananda Sonowal-led government has now dropped all pretence of legally prosecuting a bona-fide accused and has displayed that it is actually persecuting a political opponent, said Saikia.
GUWAHATI: Assam Assembly’s Leader of Opposition Debabrata Saikia today said that BJP-led state government is responsible for fomenting public unrest.
Saikia also criticised the government for re-arresting peasant leader Akhil Gogoi, who was relased after Gauhati High court on December 21, 2017 had quashed his detention under the National Security Act, 1980.
“The State Government is shamelessly trying to circumvent the quashing of NSA proceedings against Gogoi by the Gauhati High Court and the subsequent grant of bail to him by the lower court in Dibrugarh. Sarbananda Sonowal-led government has now dropped all pretence of legally prosecuting a bona-fide accused and has displayed that it is actually persecuting a political opponent,” said Saikia.
He added that the government’s action has exposed not only its vindictive nature, but also the fact that it has a scant regard for either the judiciary or public opinion.
“At a time when innocent people are being gunned down by militants and tea gardens labourers indiscriminately fired upon by owners, it is impossible to find any justification for wasting public funds and official manpower in harassing a lone man contrary to the judiciary’s indications, when they could be better utilized in trying to bring the law-and-order situation under control,” he said.
Source Economic Times By Bikash Singh