Guwahati: Popular singer Zubeen Garg said the people of Assam would never accept the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA, and protests against it should continue but without any bloodshed.
He said he would continue opposing it on various forums and also urged for concerted efforts in winning the legal battle to get the Act scrapped. In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Garg said he has been opposing the Act right from 2017 when it was a bill, and he remains firm on his stand.
He said that while protesting against CAA was necessary, there were various ways to do so. Noting that the state has seen many deaths during many such movements, be it the Assam Agitation or the 2019 anti-CAA demonstrations when five youths died, he said that no more deaths should be allowed to happen due to protests.
"I will continue protesting against CAA in my own ways. On stage or on social media -- wherever, however I can," Garg, considered a youth icon in the state, said. He claimed that the government was trying to "impose" the CAA, but the people of the state would never accept it.
