On December 18, state government employees had for the first time in the past 15 years abstained from duty. SAKP president Basab Kalita said, “All the state government employees wore black badges to protest against CAA while discharging their official duty. AASU activists also waved black flags at the BJP’s Gauhati MP Queen Oja at Azara, 22km from here, where she had gone to inaugurate a road. He reiterated that the state cannot shoulder the burden of a single Bangladeshi, Hindu or Muslim, entering the state after 1971. At Doomdooma town in Tinsukia district of Upper Assam, it will stage the protest at Gandhi Chowk from 10.30am.

Source: The Telegraph December 31, 2019 19:52 UTC