AGP to file plea in Supreme Court for revocation of amended Citizenship Act
Demanding exclusion of the Brahmaputra valley from the purview of the amended Citizenship Act, ruling BJP's ally Asom Gana Parishad on Sunday announced to challenge the law in the Supreme Court after the party faced the ire of a section of party leaders and grassroots-level workers.
Addressing a press conference here, AGP president and Assam minister Atul Bora said the Brahmaputra valley should be excluded from the purview of the law and it may be implemented in the Barak valley.
"We will take the legal route to seek revocation of the amended Act as the indigenous people of Assam are apprehensive that their identity, language might come under threat," AGP leader Kumar Deepak Das told PTI.
A delegation of AGP, led by Das, is to leave for Delhi to file the plea in the apex court as PILs seeking revocation of the Act were scheduled to be taken up for hearing on December 18.
Das, a former Rajya Sabha MP, appealed to party workers to maintain calm as the AGP "respects the sentiments of the