Assam is on state-sponsored fire: Rahul Gandhi

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday claimed that Assam is on “state-sponsored fire” after two persons were killed in police firing and nearly 20 injured during an eviction drive and a shocking video emerged of a man kicking an apparently dead person with a bullet wound on his chest and jumping over his body.

Gandhi cited a news report that said Assam policemen beat up protesters and many of them were injured. The protesters were opposing the eviction drive when policemen opened fire at them, the report claimed.

“Assam is on state-sponsored fire. I stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in the state – no children of India deserve this,” Gandhi said on Twitter.

A public protest had erupted in Sipajhar in Darrang district over the demand for rehabilitation of nearly 800 families evicted from the land they were living on for decades. Darrang superintendent of police Sushanta Biswa Sarma, younger brother of chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, claimed the protesters, armed with sharp weapons, pelted the police personnel and others present with stones.