{"id":304984,"date":"2018-11-02T06:05:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T06:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304984"},"modified":"2018-11-02T11:57:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T11:57:58","slug":"assam-bengali-youth-students-federation-calls-for-12-hour-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/assam-bengali-youth-students-federation-calls-for-12-hour-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam Bengali Youth Students Federation Calls for 12-hour Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-304986 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/bandh-jpg-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/bandh-jpg-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/bandh-jpg-510x420.jpg 510w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/bandh-jpg.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The\u00a0All Assam Bengali Youth Students Federation on Friday has called a 12-hour shutdown\u00a0in Tinsukia to protest against the murder of\u00a0five people who were killed by United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) terrorists in Bishnoimukh village near Dhola-Sadiya bridge in the district on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The incident\u00a0took place on Thursday evening and the victims have been identified as Shyamlal Biswas, Ananta Biswas, Abhinash Biswas, Subal Biswas and Dhananjay Namsudra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday condemned the\u00a0murder of people by ULFA. Banerjee further questioned if the attack was the outcome of the recent National Register of Citizen (NRC) development.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIn protest against the brutal killings in Assam @AITCofficial will organise protest rallies tomorrow ( Fri Nov 2) in different parts of north and south Bengal including Siliguri and Kolkata,\u201d Mamata Banerjee tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Condemning the Dhola incident,\u00a0Union Home\u00a0Minister\u00a0Rajnath Singh\u00a0said that he had spoken with\u00a0Assam\u00a0Chief\u00a0Minister\u00a0Sarbananda Sonowal\u00a0and asked him take strict action against the culprits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Deeply anguished by civilian casualties in an attack in Upper\u00a0Assam\u00a0region. It is a reprehensible act of mindless violence. Spoke to Assam CM Shri @sarbanandsonwal regarding the incident and asked him to take strict possible action against the perpetrators of this heinous crime,&#8221; Singh tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">All India Trinamool Congress took to their twitter account and said, \u201cIn solidarity, on #ProtestDay to condemn the brutal killings of Bengalis by a State ruled by the #BJP, we are turning our Twitter\/FB DPs into black. Street protests throughout #Bengal. Please turn your DP into black for today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0All Assam Bengali Youth Students Federation on Friday has called a 12-hour shutdown\u00a0in Tinsukia to protest against the murder of\u00a0five people who were killed by United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) terrorists in Bishnoimukh village near Dhola-Sadiya bridge in the district on Thursday. The incident\u00a0took place on Thursday evening and the victims have been identified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2459,2030,2014],"tags":[1758,9434,9436,9435,1619,399],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305014,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304984\/revisions\/305014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}