Students in India Block Oil Pumping
Student protesters have widened a campaign to obstruct oil production in the Indian state of Assam after New Delhi threatened tough action against them, an official said Thursday.
Assam’s Home Minister Bhrigu Kumar Phukan said members of the All Assam Students Union had formed a human chain around all six crude-pumping stations in the northeastern state, preventing employees from working.
The students want the government to implement a 1985 accord promising deportation of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants and industrial development of resource-rich Assam.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
