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Anti-CAB protests rock North East India as Rajya Sabha passes contentious legislation; demonstrators stage massive rallies
Fp Staff • 5 years agoThe anger in the northeastern states against the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019, showed no signs of abating on the second consecutive day on Wednesday, which was marked by large-scale protests and lockdowns
Nature of protests in Assam show North East agitating against citizenship bill to protect indigenous culture from outsiders, not for 'secular' India
Kangkan Acharyya • 5 years agoProtesters in Assam say they would oppose Citizenship (Amendment) Bill even if it included all religions, revealing a huge mismatch between the reasons behind the North East's agitation against CAB and that of the Congress party
Making sense of Assam's NRC: A closer look at three factors that caused errors in register of citizens
Rajeevbhattacharyya • 5 years agoBarring foreign nationals who might have fraudulently enrolled their names in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, nobody is happy with the list published last month
Rs 1,220-cr and 10 years later, NRC leaves group favouring exercise dissatisfied, raises doubts over migrant numbers in Assam
Syeda Ambia Zahan • 6 years agoThe NRC in Assam, which took ten years, employed 52,000 government employees and cost the government Rs 1,220 crore, is now being considered as a fruitless exercise by the very same people who sought it in order to detect and deport of illegal migrants from the northeastern state
Academicians, writers condemn FIRs against Assam's Miyah poets, say it is attempt to 'malign and criminalise' them
Fp Staff • 6 years agoMiyah poetry, written by Bengali Muslims who have settled in the riverine plains of the Brahmaputra in Assam, has been the subject of much media attention in recent times.
BJP managed to nullify regionalism, negate citizenship fears among Bengali Hindus by pitting CAB against NRC in Assam
Smitana Saikia • 6 years agoComfortably in power in the state since 2016, the BJP ran a polarising campaign in the state amid controversial issues of the National Register of Citizens and the Citizenship Bill.
Citizenship bill: Submerged in sectarian politics, BJP turns a blind eye to historical complexities of Assamese sub-nationalism
Smitana Saikia • 6 years agoThough partition caused a communal rift in Assam, after Independence, the ‘Language movement’ overshadowed the problem of illegal immigration into Assam.
BJP bets on citizenship bill to make inroads in Assam, West Bengal as TMC's 'U-turn' leaves legislation up in air
Kangkan Acharyya • 6 years agoThe BJP has an opportunity to get cosier with Bengali Hindus, many of whom are eagerly waiting for the bill to become a law.
Final draft of Assam NRC to be released today: 1.5 cr people await citizenship status amid heavy security and political assurances
Fp Staff • 7 years agoThe release of the second and final draft of Assam's National Register of Citizens (NRC) will be released on Monday. Authorities are expected to release it at a press event in NRC Guwahati office at 10 am.
Successful NRC updation would prepare ground for tectonic shift in Assam politics
Kangkan Acharyya • 7 years agoThe first part draft published with the names of 1.9 crore people out of the 3.29 crore total applicants in Assam recognising them as legal citizens of India.