All Assam Gorkha Students' Union against ‘D’ voters tag

All Assam Gorkha Students' Union Lakhimpur Dist. Unit mass protest rally against 'D' voters issue of the Gorkhas of Assam, mega dams, illegal  Indo-Bangla land swap deal at Lakimpur on Thursday, September 29.

Dimapur, September 29 (MExN): Recently a genuine Indian citizen, a resident of Tezalpati under Sootea police station in Sonitpur Indra Bahadur Rai was served with a notice branding him as illegal Bangladeshi whose details was furnished by the influential All Assam Gorkha Students’ Union (AAGSU) the apex organization of Gorkha students and youths of Assam at a press conference at Tezpur last Saturday. This was informed in a press note issued by Nanda Kirati Dewan, Information and Publicity Secy. AAGSU.
Such cases and the ‘D’ voters issues are on the rise amongst the Gorkha community in Assam. A mass protest rally was organized at Lakhimpur at the call of All Assam Gorkha Students’ Union (AAGSU) in aegis of Lakhimpur Dist. Unit of All Assam Gorkha Students Union (AAGSU). Half a thousand members of AAGSU, Gorkha youths lead by Lakhimpur Dist. AAGSU president Pawan Bhardwaj and gen secretary Bharat Chetry, rallied across Lakhimpur town beginning from Khelmati Shiva Mandir to DC Office where in a memorandum was submitted to the prime minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh through the Deputy Commissioner, North Lakhimpur to address this important burning issue which completely illegal and against national interest. Copies of the memorandum have been marked to Chief Minister of Assam Tarun Gogoi, Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Smti Sushma Swaraj, Chief Election Commissioner and Assam Accord Implementation Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and all DCs of the state.
The protest rally was organized to register strong protest against branding of Gorkhas as illegal Bangladeshi like settlers in Assam, megadams construction in Assam, illegal Indo-Bangla land swap treaty, intrastate border dispute that has caused disharmony with the neighbouring states,  flood and erosion that have caused heavy loss of lives and property and price rise that have broken the backbone of the mioddle class and BPL families in India.  Addressing the gathering at Khelmati information and publicity secretary Nanda Kirati Dewan said, ‘The ‘D’ voters cases amongst the Gorkha community have gone abruptly high over the years and the genuine Indians have been harassed in the subject of proving their nationality time and again which is in bad vibe and is being operated by a organized group of police, small polticians and corrupt officials who can demand cash for removing the ‘D’ from the victim’s name in the voterlist. We condemn all such incident in the toughest of words and the AAGSU have organized this mass protest march against the ‘D’ voter issue of the Gorkhas.’. It may be noted that Gorkhas have settled in Assam over two hundred years and actions as such from the government is uncalled for and we decry it in strongest term. A vigorous democratic movement will break out in entire districts of Assam if this issue is not addressed at the earliest., he added.