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Across Assam, from the Barak Valley in upper Assam to the Brahmaputra Valley in lower Assam, protests against the Modi.2 government’s Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB, 2019) are breaking out proving to be an embarrassment to the BJP regime in the state

Discriminatory citizenship in the CAB was an election promise of the BJP during the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

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Questions related to detention camps in Assam have been repeated, time and again, during the winter 2019 session of Parliament. Last week saw a question in Lok Sabha, where the government claimed to know the nationalities of the detainees and this week the government stated that there have been 28 deaths in detention camps and also made tall claims about the facilities provided to the inmates.

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The issue of citizenship has turned into a major political concern with the regime’s efforts to shift the foundational base of citizenship. With a majoritarian regime driven by the RSS-BJP, faith has become the base for those who seek long term visas and finally citizenship of India. In its first term, NDA II failed to get the amendments through, now it is posed to bring them in Parliament, again. Even while the seven north-eastern states protest strongly against this amendment, a 2017 amendment in India’s Passport Rules reveals that the shift has already begun

The Modi government had released ‘model’ detention centre a manual in January 2019 containing provisions that would govern the functioning of such facilities across India. Though the manual has not been made public, some information has become available via answers to questions raised in the Parliament.