In Shimluguri, the army seized a bag written in Bengali and asked the police to

Extreme insult to Assamese language in Assam. Prime Minister Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana has written in Bengali in government bags. The Assamese government’s Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana is an insult to the bag given to provide 5 kg of rice by the food and civil supplies department to the poor families. The Assam government wrote ‘Assam Government’ in Bengali. The name of the scheme is written in Bengali on the photographs of the Chief Minister and the Prime Minister.

Veer Lachit Sena is fed up with using Bengali language by using Assamese language on bags supplied by government schemes. On Saturday, Veer Lachit Sena of Assam

The undivided Shimluguri Regional Committee of Lakhimpur district seized such bags under the Anna Yojana scheme under the Assam government written in Bengali. Committee secretary Anant Gogoi, District Committee Assistant Secretary Ratul Gogoi, Regional Vice President Gopal Daimary, Co-Secretary Jeevan Dihingia, Krishnakant Sandi, Kalpa Sandiki, Member Tun Sandiki along with several soldiers seized a large number of Bengali language written bags from Biren Hatibarua, owner of the Affordable Price Shop.

The seized bags were handed over to the Shimluguri police by the organisation. Undivided

Shimluguri bir lachit sena demanded that all affordable shopkeepers and cooperative societies stop distributing these bags written in Bengali language. It may be recalled that these bags were supplied by the Food and Assamese Supply Department of the Government of Assam in various cooperatives