Why Northeast India Fuming Over Citizenship Amendment Bill?||Prof K Nageshwar|| скачать в хорошем качестве

Why Northeast India Fuming Over Citizenship Amendment Bill?||Prof K Nageshwar||

EVER since the idea of Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 was mooted in 2016, it was evident that there will be strong reactions in Assam. Right from the introduction of the bill in Lok Sabha on July 19, 2016, movement started in Assam, particularly in the Brahmaputra valley, demanding immediate withdrawal of it. All the political parties and mass organizations except BJP expressed their clear opposition to the bill. Politically BJP was completely isolated on the question of the bill where even its coalition partner AGP had out rightly rejected the BJP’s position on the bill. When the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), formed to consider the bill; visited Assam on May 7-9, 2018 almost all organizations, except a few run by RSS, demanded withdrawal of the bill. This was supplemented by huge protest throughout the state afterwards.