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In Assamese heartland, those who fought BJP’s citizenship law are now voting for ‘development’
Economics, and not identity, dominates election conversations. Voters in Upper Assam say development is central to the election, not citizenship battles. | Arunabh Saikia
Fifteen months ago, within 24 hours of Parliament passing the Citizenship Amendment Act, five young men fell to police bullets in Guwahati as scorching protests swept through Assam.
The controversial amendments fast-track Indian citizenship for undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan. In Assam, which shares a long border with Bangladesh, angry protestors declared the new law would spell the death knell for the Assamese identity. For years, the Congress had sheltered “illegal” Muslim migrants, they claimed, and now the Bharatiya Janata Party, which had promised to chase away all “infiltrators”, was doing the same by paving the way for the entry of Hin
The Centre will allow residents to fill columns in the National Population Register (NPR) forms on their own through online mode, a month before door-to-door enumeration by Census officials starts. After filling the form online, residents will get a reference code that they could mention to the field enumerator at the time of her/his visit, according to a senior government official.
The group of 23 letter writers (G-23), who had written to party chief Sonia Gandhi last August asking for reforms, were not dissenters but protectors of the Congress legacy, senior Congress leader and a key member of G-23, Kapil Sibal, said on Sunday.
Assam BJP chief Ranjeet Kumar Dass said that people are convinced that not a single foreigner can illegally settle in Assam as long as the BJP is in power in the state.
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March 16, 2021 00:41 IST
The ruling party has not implemented any of its poll promises made five years ago, says Chhattisgarh Chief Minister
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The ruling party has not implemented any of its poll promises made five years ago, says Chhattisgarh Chief Minister
Congress leader
, who is an observer for the election-bound Assam, speaks about the party’s poll prospects in the State, discomfort within cadre about the alliance with Badruddin Ajmal’s All India United Democratic Front and dissent by the G-23 group of leaders. Excerpts:
In 2016, there was a gap of 10% in terms of vote share between the Congress and the BJP. How do you plan to bridge this?