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Citizenship Amendment Act: Sarbananda Sonowal risks political apocalypse by ignoring Assamese sub-nationalism

Today Sarbananda Sonowal is a karyakarta of the BJP, a kindergarten student in the school of Hindutva, an enthusiastic apologist for the Citizenship Amendment Act but he is no longer an Assamese.

AGP MP Birendra Prasad Baishya's remarks against Citizenship Bill in RS espouse reasons why Assam is protesting against amended law

Birendra Prasad Baishya, the lone Rajya Sabha member of NDA ally Asom Gana Parishad registered his opposition to the Citizenship Amendment Bill saying that it would cause a grave threat to the language and culture of the people of Assam

Congress in Assam: Despite a series of defeats, young bloods prepare to fight back and help party 'rise like a phoenix'

There is no question that Congress will have to use everything in their armamentarium to prove that to win again in Assam is not a Sisyphean job for the party.

In Assam’s Mangaldoi, struggle to get listed on NRC emerges as major poll issue; Muslims determined to vote in large numbers

A flashpoint during the 80s Assam agitation, Mangaldoi’s residents left out of the NRC seem determined to vote in April like always even though uncertainty looms over their future

Citizenship Amendment Bill: BJP dumps indigenes in Assam in a bid to make Hindu Bengali refugees citizens for poll gains

The BJP feels it would be able to make electoral inroads by pandering to a major section of the Bengali voters by invoking sentiments of Bengali linguistic nationalism especially in respect of those Hindu ‘refugees’ likely to enter India from Bangladesh.

Assam NRC: Tarun Gogoi drops a bombshell, says people in voter list could have been accommodated in citizens' register

The former chief minister’s suggestion to accept the voter list as a valid document of citizenship is seen as the continuation of the same politics around securing vote bank.

Assam turns into haven for illegal migrants: A story of blunders and missed opportunities to resolve vexed issue

The current situation in Assam stems from the failure by the state and society to grasp the long-term implications of unchecked illegal migration.

NRC in Assam: Exercise to identify illegal migrants must not morph into anti-Muslim madness and affect other states

It’s hardly surprising that any discussion on Assam’s so-called citizen verification process quickly degenerates into an argument about Bangladeshi Muslims in particular.

'NRC has been fair and invaluable; let's not twist it with malicious propaganda': An Assamese citizen's appeal

The NRC is one of the most hotly debated national issues. But there is a lot of deliberate misinformation and half-truths being floated to muddy the waters, and hamper the process.

BJP has conquered North East but it needs to solve issues like infiltration from Bangladesh, Naga Accord to last

BJP must not forget that unlike the Hindi heartland, North East is a multilingual, multireligious and plural society which has not seen much communal violence.