Zubeen Garg.
Singer Zubeen Garg during the protest against Citizenship (Amendment) Bill. File Image: Northeast Now

Popular singer of  Assam Zubeen Garg on Saturday lambasts Assam State BJP president Ranjeet Dass while reiterating his firm stands against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016.

โ€œNo matter what, I will always speak the truth,โ€ the singer said reacting to the remarks made by Assam BJP president Ranjeet Dass on the singerโ€™s stand on the Bill.

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Zubeen said, โ€œI am not a political person, I am not Congressi, nor do I support BJP.โ€

Zubeen Garg has called upon the people of Assam to take part in the Bajra Ninad programme organised by All Assam Studentsโ€™ Union (AASU) along with 30 other organisations of ethnic communities  on January 23, in protest against the much-debated Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016.

Ranjeet Dass had earlier said that Zubeen Garg should refrain from raising  insubstantial issues in reference to the singerโ€™s efforts to whip up opposition to the contentious Bill.

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Das had also said that โ€œPeople of Assam loves Zubeen and thatโ€™s the sole reason he was chosen to sing Assam BJPโ€™s campaign song for 2016 elections.โ€

Zubeen Garg has been speaking strongly against Citizenship (Amendment) Bill and even made an appeal to Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal to get the Bill scrapped.