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Black flags welcome PM Modi in Guwahati

| @indiablooms | Feb 08, 2019, at 09:17 pm

Guwahati, Feb 8 (IBNS): Black flags have welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi after he arrived at Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, Borjhar in Guwahati on Friday evening for two-day-long North East visit.

The students of Guwahati university have shown black flags to the Prime Minister at Jalukbari area while the PM convoy passing the area to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016.

On the other hand, the activists of All Assam Students Union (AASU) have also shown black flags to the PM's convoy as it was passing by the AASU office at Uzanbazar area in Guwahati to Raj Bhawan.

PM Modi will spend the night at Raj Bhawan.

Assam governor Jagdish Mukhi, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Finance minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma have welcomed the Prime Minister at Borjhar airport.

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)

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