Former Chief Minister and Asom Gana Parishad leader, Prafulla Mahanta, has threatened to withdraw support from the BJP-led government in Assam, if the Centre sticks to the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016.
“If the BJP does go ahead with the bill, then the alliance with us won’t remain,” Mahanta said to The Print.
Expressing disappointment over no assurance from the BJP, Mahanta said that the ruling party at the Centre could very well go ahead with the bill "to please a particular section". "Maybe not immediately, but before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections,” he said.
The AGP leader's remarks came a day after his party registered a protest against the controversial bill with the BJP president, Amit Shah, saying the bill was a threat to the indigenous people and violates the clauses of the Assam Accord.