NEW DELHI: The All Assam Bengali Youth Students’ Federation will stage a dharna in Jantar Mantar, New Delhi on February 6 seeking fulfillment of various demands. The federation will also submit a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, home minister Amit Shah, Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and MPs of Assam regarding the same.

The demands, for which the organisation is staging the protest in the national capital, include – formation of a core and satellite territorial council for Hindu Bengalis in Assam in order to preserve ethnography, semantics, cultural and religious cults, and history in order to enrich the national life through socio-economic, cultural, intellectual, educational, political, and linguistic activities, redressal of the problems being faced at present by a portion of Hindu Bengalis living in Assam in getting Aadhaar-based identification in post-NRC operation, necessary augmentation to Immigrants (Expulsion from Assam) Act

1950 passed in Parliament in March, 1950 to protect people who have entered due to religious persecution from Bangladesh (East Pakistan) to date in view of the present move in cut-off date for Citizenship to 1951 on switching from 1971 March 25, immediate release of Hindu Bengalis who have been lodged in transit camps as foreigners and stopping of serving foreigners notices or proceedings in the foreigners’ tribunals against Hindu Bengalis, ensuring land rights on not insisting registration of ownership of land either for sale or purchase,

The documents from the 1965 voters’ list as requisite after about 60 years with relaxation to people protected under The Immigrants (Expulsion from Assam) Act, 1950, stopping of eviction of Hindu Bengalis from government or other classes of lands and to not make them homeless or lack land-based economic avenues and protection of the homogenous interest of Hindu Bengalis in matters of the present delimitation exercise of the constituencies in Assam.

The federation said the government should treat the matter with importance and initiate appropriate steps for fulfillment of the demands.