GUWAHATI, June 29 - Leader of Opposition in the State Assembly Debabrata Saikia today said the news of Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre stopping government advertisements to The Assam Tribune since February this year as �punishment� for opposing the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 has left him astounded.
In a statement, Saikia demanded that the Modi government should immediately abandon this unjust policy and resume issuing government advertisements to the Assam Tribune group.
�This (publication) group deserves government advertisements by dint of its 81-year-old stature as the pride of Assam,� he said, describing this �vindictive act� of the Modi government as a blatant assault on freedom of speech fostered by democratic traditions.
