Tear gas, security forces and anti-CAB protestors in Guwahati. “I am confident that now the problem of citizenship for Bengali Hindus will be sorted out,” said Kabindra Purkayashtha, former MP and Union Minister and senior BJP leader from the region. The final NRC included 3.11 crore applicants as citizens and excluded 19 lakh. ILP areas in Assam and areas not exempted from Citizenship Amendment BillĪmong those who attended the rally were Hindus who failed to make it to the National Register of Citizens ( NRC) list, which was published on August 31. It is about saving the Hindus,” she said. “If Hindus don’t come to India, where else will they go? This Bill is not about Muslims at all. On Wednesday, Chakravarty was part of a rally at Silchar’s Khudiram Bose Statue point organised to register their support for the Bill. “While I completely respect the sentiments of the people who are protesting across Assam, it is important to understand why the Bill is important to us,” said Sharmila Chakravarty, a 25-year-old law graduate from Silchar.
Students show their support for Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in Assam’s Barak Valley. Many believe that the legislation would rectify the wrongs to the state’s Hindu Bengali community. Post Partition, a sizeable Bengali-Hindu population had migrated to the Barak Valley to escape religious persecution in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
On Tuesday, however, a few students (who come from different parts of Assam) had held protests in the university following a bandh call by the North East Students’ Organisation (NESO). In fact, the Bill has come too late,” said Milan Das of Assam University. It was a national promise that our persecuted brothers and sisters would get citizenship. “We gathered at the Shahid Minar in our college, lit candles to show our support for the Bill. Students of Assam University in Silchar took out a torchlight procession in support of the bill on Wednesday evening. Even as thousands of students around Assam have held vociferous protests against the contentious legislation, which seeks to give citizenship to illegal migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh, students of Assam University in Silchar took out a torchlight procession in its support on Wednesday evening.
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