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The Cabinet has passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), 2019 and its introduction is awaited in either houses of the Parliament any day now. The government expects and believes that the bill will be passed by the Parliament (both houses) by December 10. The opposition is unlikely to allow smooth sailing of the amendment that seriously alters the fundamentals of Indian citizenship

Assam, Manipur and other north-eastern states see simmering protests over the proposed Citizenship Amendment Bill

There seems to be an eerie silence ever since the Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, spoke “officially” in the Rajya Sabha about a nation-wide National Register of Citizens (NRC) and re-introduction of the controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB). Thus, it appears that the proposed bill has not yet been finalised by the central government that seems perturbed by the agitation and protests that have engulfed the Northeastern states ever since winter session began.

Image Courtesy: EPSGuwahati, November 29, 2019: The proposed...

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.

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

Roy delivered the Jonathan Schell Memorial Lecture for 2019 on November 12 in New York City organized by The Nation. The text has appeared in The Nation and The Caravan and is now being published here.

From Monday, eight student bodies under the North East Students’ Organisation (NESO) umbrella have been holding protest marches against the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) across all states in North-East India. Here is a breakdown of what has transpired

The WB chief minister has been staunchly anti-NRC for the past year but has, years ago also known to have brought lawmakers’ attention to supposed Bangladeshi infiltration in the state.