guwahati after politicians from the ruling bjp and agp who are being greeted with black flags across the brahmaputra valley for supporting the caa its now the turn of members of the artists fraternity to face the wrath of antiact protesters in upper assam in a first various indigenous organisations of duliajan and its surrounding areas in dibrugarh district headed by the duliajan units of the all assam students union aasu and asom jatiyatabadi yuba chatra parishad ajycp have banned some famous actors from the assamese film industry who belong to families linked to bjpanil gogoi cultural secretary of the central committee of aasu hailing from duliajan said for the first time in assam such a ban had to be imposed on artists during the anticaa movement while few artists are openly advocating the caa the rest are mute spectators the local committees of most of the prominent indigenous organisations in duliajan have taken a final decision to bar at least five such personalities from the field of art and culture they are aimee baruah gayatri mahanta krishnamoni chutia akashdeep and pabitra margherita while aimee baruah is the wife of bjp leader and minister of state for health pijush hazarika gayatri mahanta is cine producer pabitra margheritas spouse besides being a spokesperson of state bjp pabitra was appointed the chairman of the jyotichitraban film studio by the sonowal government gogoi alleged that popular assamese singer krishnamoni chutia is in favour of the bjpled governments stand on the caa while actor akashdeep husband of bjp mla and actorturnedpolitician angoorlata deka is silent on the act to defend his wife from duliajan we appeal to the people of assam to ban everyone taking side of illegal bangladeshis and the government which is out to regularize their entry its unfortunate that we had to ban them from performing in any cultural show or addressing any public event he added at a time when the artists fraternity in assam has taken a leading role in the movement to repeal caa some of the most familiar faces from the states cultural arena are yet to make their stand clear in the citizenship law that has kept assam on the boil ever since the passage of the citizenship amendment bill cab in parliament backed by aasu popular singer zubeen garg has gone to the extent of challenging bjp in the 2021 assembly polls and vowed to float a political party to keep intact the interests of the indigenous communities after the caa was enacted aasu general secretary lurinjyoti gogoi said the ban imposed on the personalities from the cultural arena by the organizations in duliajan is only an outburst of the anger of the people against the saffron party and not artists most of the personalities whom the organizations have banned in duliajan are to bjp through their family members some of them have bjp membership the anger of the people is on their association with bjp i think there is nothing personal there he added