Bangladesh-born Hindu man living in Assam gets citizenship under CAA, Opposition parties slam BJP

But organisations in Assam are opposed to it saying this violates the Assam Accord of 1985, that promised to detect and deport all “foreigners” to Bangladesh. The Accord was signed following the six-year-long Assam Agitation or anti-foreigners’ movement between 1979 and 1985.

Under the Accord, the Centre in 2005 decided to update the NRC with March 24, 1971as the cut-off date for detection and deportation of all foreigners. More than 19.06 lakh people were left out of the final draft of the NRC, but the Centre tweaked the cut-off date by passing the CAA. The NRC process too have remained stalled due to petitions in the Supreme Court.

“This insults the indigenous people of Assam, who have been fighting against the CAA. This is also an irony that a foreigner has been given Indian citizenship on the 39th anniversary of Assam Accord. It is an insult to 855 martyrs, who had sacrificed their lives during the Assam Agitation,” president of Asom Jatiya Parishad (AJP), Lurinjyoti Gogoi said on Wednesday.

The AJP was born out of the anti-CAA agitation in 2020. Gogoi was a leader of All Assam Students’ Union, which had led the Assam Agitation.

Senior Congress leader and MLA, Debabrata Saikia said citizenship to the Hindu migrant was part of BJP’s communal politics and part of its agenda for votes.

“Congress is against giving citizenship on religious lines. Our party wants implementation of the Assam Accord which promised to detect and deport all post-1971 foreigners.”

Another anti-CAA MLA and chief of Raijor Dal, a regional parry, Akhil Gogoi called the CAA unconstitutional. “This is going to be huge threat to the culture and identity of the indigenous people. We strongly oppose this move,” he said.

Following vehement protests in the Northeast, the Centre decided to exempt the areas protected under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution having autonomous councils in the region. The Centre also introduced Inner Line Permit (ILP) in Manipur, a system which was already in place in Nagaland, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh.

Under the ILP, outside visitors are required to take a travel permit. Many says that Assam and Tripura is going to be affected more as large areas of the two states (sharing border with Bangladesh) are still out of the sixth schedule areas.

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