Citizen Amendment Bill-2016

Protests continued in the Northeast days after the Lok Sabha passed the controversial Citizen Amendment Bill-2016, which aims to grant citizenship rights to non-Muslim migrants from three neighbouring countries.

Protests broke out across Assam over state Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's remark that if the Citizenship Bill is not passed "we will be surrendering to Jinnah's policy".

A video showing a former student leader swearing allegiance to a faction of the banned United Liberation Front of Assam in battle fatigues has gone viral on the social media, heightening tensions in a state already in the throes of rising anti-migrant sentiment. Pankaj Pratim Dutta was the vice-president of the of the All Assam Students Union's Der...

Protests continued in the Northeast days after the Lok Sabha passed the controversial Citizen Amendment Bill-2016, which aims to grant citizenship rights to non-Muslim migrants from three neighbouring countries.

Protests broke out across Assam over state Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's remark that if the Citizenship Bill is not passed "we will be surrendering to Jinnah's policy".

A video showing a former student leader swearing allegiance to a faction of the banned United Liberation Front of Assam in battle fatigues has gone viral on the social media, heightening tensions in a state already in the throes of rising anti-migrant sentiment. Pankaj Pratim Dutta was the vice-president of the of the All Assam Students Union's Der...