The north-eastern States shut down on Tuesday against the “anti-indigenous people” Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 that the Union Cabinet cleared on Monday for approval by Parliament. The All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) had first announced a 11-hour shutdown against the Bill, its first such call in more than a decade. “The Bill is contrary to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s avowed objective to save race, land and hearth. It also had no impact in southern Assam’s Barak Valley, which has been supporting the Citizenship Bill since the inception. The party had been under pressure from political and social organisations to quit because of ideological differences with the BJP over the Bill.

Source: The Hindu January 08, 2019 05:02 UTC