By PTI
GUWAHATI: Widespread protests in Assam after the enactment of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) on this present day three years in the past have left behind a festering wound that has saved the citizenship difficulty alive within the northeastern state sharing an extended border with Bangladesh.
The BJP authorities on the Centre asserts that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 shall be applied however is but to border the principles, resulting in allegations from varied quarters that the saffron occasion is utilizing it as a “political card” to polarise the nation.
The Citizenship Act, of 1955 was amended to offer citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian non secular minorities fleeing persecution from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan and looking for refuge in India until 2014.
The Opposition protested the Act as being based mostly on non secular standards and needed it to be amended.
The protests towards the Act in Assam had been led by the All Assam Students Union (AASU) and the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) however the stir was completely different from these in different components of the nation as agitators asserted that the state can’t be a dumping floor for foreigners regardless of their faith.
The agitation in Assam had turned violent, with 5 folks shedding their lives in police firing and KMSS chief Akhil Gogoi and 4 others being arrested. The stir was referred to as off with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the aftermath of the agitation, two new political events — Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) led by the then AASU chief Lurinjyoti Gogoi and Raijor Dal headed by Akhil Gogoi — had been born in Assam.
“The BJP uses CAA as a political tool, particularly during elections, and it has not framed the rules as it wants to keep the ‘foreigners’ issue’ alive in Assam. What’s worse is that the party has brought a communal angle through the Act with its narrative ‘Hindu khatre mein hain’ (Hindus are in danger),” AJP president Lurinjyoti Gogoi instructed PTI.
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The CAA has made the Assam Accord and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) irrelevant, he claimed.
“The Centre must give constitutional safeguards to Assam like those accorded to other northeastern states against further settlement of ‘foreigners’ as those who came after 1971 – Hindu ‘Bangladeshis’ or others – cannot be rehabilitated in our state,” Raijor Dal working president Bhasco de Saikia stated.
“We are firm on our opposition to the Act which we consider to be a part of the BJP’s communal politics and if they frame the rules, the ‘foreigners’ should be taken to other states,” Saikia stated.
The RSS and the BJP, nevertheless, asserted that each the CAA and NRC usually are not towards any Indian and that the communal narrative has been created “by some” for political mileage.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat identified right here final 12 months that no Muslim will face any persecution as a result of CAA.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had additionally asserted that the CAA is for individuals who are “victims of Partition and persecuted in a communal country created on the basis of religion.”
Sarma had claimed that “so-called secular protesters” on the nationwide degree tried to present a communal color to the protests in Assam.
Political author and analyst Sushanta Talukdar stated the federal government has been delaying the implementation of CAA as it’s cautious of antagonistic reactions in Assam and Tripura the place the ruling BJP has excessive stakes.
“The Centre is apprehensive of exposing linguistic and ethnic fault lines in the Northeast and antagonising its own and alliance partners’ electoral support base because, without adequate constitutional safeguards, the Act could lead to the marginalisation of indigenous people by the migrant population which might result in their loss of political power and identity,” Talukdar added.
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GUWAHATI: Widespread protests in Assam after the enactment of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) on this present day three years in the past have left behind a festering wound that has saved the citizenship difficulty alive within the northeastern state sharing an extended border with Bangladesh.
The BJP authorities on the Centre asserts that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 shall be applied however is but to border the principles, resulting in allegations from varied quarters that the saffron occasion is utilizing it as a “political card” to polarise the nation.
The Citizenship Act, of 1955 was amended to offer citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian non secular minorities fleeing persecution from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan and looking for refuge in India until 2014.
The Opposition protested the Act as being based mostly on non secular standards and needed it to be amended.
The protests towards the Act in Assam had been led by the All Assam Students Union (AASU) and the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) however the stir was completely different from these in different components of the nation as agitators asserted that the state can’t be a dumping floor for foreigners regardless of their faith.
The agitation in Assam had turned violent, with 5 folks shedding their lives in police firing and KMSS chief Akhil Gogoi and 4 others being arrested. The stir was referred to as off with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the aftermath of the agitation, two new political events — Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) led by the then AASU chief Lurinjyoti Gogoi and Raijor Dal headed by Akhil Gogoi — had been born in Assam.
“The BJP uses CAA as a political tool, particularly during elections, and it has not framed the rules as it wants to keep the ‘foreigners’ issue’ alive in Assam. What’s worse is that the party has brought a communal angle through the Act with its narrative ‘Hindu khatre mein hain’ (Hindus are in danger),” AJP president Lurinjyoti Gogoi instructed PTI.ALSO READ | No CAA rollout, but MHA strikes to grant citizenship
The CAA has made the Assam Accord and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) irrelevant, he claimed.
“The Centre must give constitutional safeguards to Assam like those accorded to other northeastern states against further settlement of ‘foreigners’ as those who came after 1971 – Hindu ‘Bangladeshis’ or others – cannot be rehabilitated in our state,” Raijor Dal working president Bhasco de Saikia stated.
“We are firm on our opposition to the Act which we consider to be a part of the BJP’s communal politics and if they frame the rules, the ‘foreigners’ should be taken to other states,” Saikia stated.
The RSS and the BJP, nevertheless, asserted that each the CAA and NRC usually are not towards any Indian and that the communal narrative has been created “by some” for political mileage.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat identified right here final 12 months that no Muslim will face any persecution as a result of CAA.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had additionally asserted that the CAA is for individuals who are “victims of Partition and persecuted in a communal country created on the basis of religion.”
Sarma had claimed that “so-called secular protesters” on the nationwide degree tried to present a communal color to the protests in Assam.
Political author and analyst Sushanta Talukdar stated the federal government has been delaying the implementation of CAA as it’s cautious of antagonistic reactions in Assam and Tripura the place the ruling BJP has excessive stakes.
“The Centre is apprehensive of exposing linguistic and ethnic fault lines in the Northeast and antagonising its own and alliance partners’ electoral support base because, without adequate constitutional safeguards, the Act could lead to the marginalisation of indigenous people by the migrant population which might result in their loss of political power and identity,” Talukdar added.ALSO READ | ‘Won’t settle for foreigners’: Voices towards CAA get louder
