{"id":59670,"date":"2019-02-09T01:53:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T20:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=59670"},"modified":"2019-02-09T01:53:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T20:23:07","slug":"student-unions-to-boycott-pms-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/02\/09\/student-unions-to-boycott-pms-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Student unions to boycott PM&#8217;s visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>RONO HILLS, Feb 8:<\/strong> The Rajiv Gandhi University Students&#8217; Union (RGUSU) on Friday said it would boycott Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s visit to the state on Saturday in protest against the citizenship amendment bill.<br \/>\nThe students of the university will wear black and burn Modi&#8217;s effigy, the union said, adding<br \/>\nthat a demonstration will be staged in the varsity campus to protest the bill.<br \/>\nThe Students&#8217; Union of NERIST and the Himalayan University Students&#8217; Union have also announced agitational programmes in their institutes&#8217; campuses to boycott the PM&#8217;s visit.<br \/>\nThe students&#8217; organizations have urged the general public and students of the state to not attend the function at IG Park to show their opposition to the bill.<br \/>\n&#8220;The bill, if it becomes law, can trample all indigenous rights,&#8221; the RGUSU warned.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, NESO coordinator Pritam Waii Sonam criticized the PM&#8217;s visit and said &#8220;the people of Arunachal are not all happy to welcome him.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe appealed to the students across the state to protest the PM&#8217;s visit by wearing black on the day of his visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RONO HILLS, Feb 8: The Rajiv Gandhi University Students&#8217; Union (RGUSU) on Friday said it would boycott Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s visit to the state on Saturday in protest against the citizenship amendment bill. The students of the university will wear black and burn Modi&#8217;s effigy, the union said, adding that a demonstration will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-59670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}