Updated: Covaxin doses offered at a shelter home for the community in Guwahati. Share Article AAA Getting protected: Vaccine being administered to a person from the transgender community in Guwahati on May 14, 2021. Forty of them received the shots, and the intiative would be expanded to other parts of Assam, officials said. | Photo Credit: Ritu Raj Konwar Covaxin doses offered at a shelter home for the community in Guwahati. Azizur Khan was caught in two minds. But her faith in Swati Bidhan Baruah, the first transgender judge in the northeastern region, convinced her to take a Covaxin shot. She was the youngest of some 40 transgenders in the 18-44 age group who were vaccinated against the SARS-CoV-2 virus at Tritiyo Nivas, a shelter home for the third gender in Guwahati’s Hatigaon locality.
Kartik Kakar For the last 15 months, Mousumi Stafford has been fighting for justice for her brother. Now, sheâs keenly following the political developments ahead of the Assembly election in Assam, scheduled for between March 27 and April 6. For Mousumi, this election will prove to be decisive. On December 12, 2019, Sam Stafford, 17, died in police firing during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act in Guwahati. The law, passed in the parliament the day before, gives citizenship to undocumented, non-Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Assam erupted in violent protests as many saw the law as a violation of the 1985 Assam Accord, which committed the central government to removing all âillegal immigrantsâ who entered the state after March 24, 1971.