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GUWAHATI: The All Assam Students Union (Aasu) on Sunday threatened to unleash the “anger of the people” on PM Modi if he visits the state on January 10 to inaugurate the third edition of the Khelo India Youth Games — the second major sporting event Guwahati is scheduled to host in the middle of the still simmering agitation against the new citizenship law.

“We are keeping a close watch on Khelo India as well as preparations for the India-Sri Lanka T20 match (on January 5). If PM Modi visits Assam for the first time since imposing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act on us, it is to be expected that he won’t escape the people’s wrath,” Aasu chief adviser Samujjal Bhattacharyya said.

The “postponed” India-Japan summit in Guwahati from December 15 to 17 was to be PM Modi’s first visit to the state after CAA came into being. The meeting with Japanese PM Shinzo Abe had to be called off amid a curfew in Guwahati.

On whether Aasu’s plan to disrupt Modi’s visit in January translates into a threat to the safety of athletes enrolling for the Khelo India event, Bhattacharyya the Centre and the state government shouldn’t “teach hospitality to the people of Assam”. Aasu president Dipanka Kumar Nath said his organisation had planned “massive protests to greet Modi”, but did not specify whether that would mean disrupting Khelo India.

The student organisation, which has been galvanising large crowds against the citizenship law at rallies across the state, fears the government might use the T20 match and the Khelo India Youth Games to give the impression that the people’s agitation has died down.

BJP has already held a few “peace and progress rallies”. Bhattacharyya said the state BJP leadership should feel the pulse of the people and “address their concerns instead of taking out peace rallies”.

Pointing to the “promptness” of the Manipur government in getting the Centre to extend the inner-line permit system to that state, the Aasu chief adviser said that in contrast, Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal failed the indigenous communities.

