Assam Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma Addressing a BJP State Executive Meeting (Archive) Guwahati: Assam Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said Thursday that the NRC remained incomplete in the state and that “justice” was needed for Hindus living in the Barak Valley region. Sarma, who is the problem solver for the ruling …
Read More »104-year-old in Assam dies as ‘foreigner’, hoping ‘CAA will solve everything’
Written by Tora Agarwala | Guwahati | Updated: December 15, 2020 7:32:12 am Das and his wife last week. Biswa Kalyan Purkayastha About six months ago, Nyuti Das remembers his father Chandrahar Das bent over his brother’s phone, his one good eye, and the rest of him completely engrossed in …
Read More »Vijayvargiya raises the tone of the survey in Bengal, but remains a mother in NRC
File photo of BJP Secretary General Kailash Vijayvargiya. The national president of the BJP, JP Nadda, during his recent visit to the state, had said that rules for the implementation of the law are being worked out. The CAA will be implemented in letter and spirit later. News18.com Calcutta Last …
Read More »A year ago, the BJP focused its policy on the CAA. So why hasn’t it been implemented yet?
On December 11, 2019, Parliament passed amendments to the Citizenship Law that sparked an unprecedented national protest movement against legislation and other government policies that discriminate against Muslims and violate constitutional standards. A year later, after the riots in Delhi and the Covid-19 pandemic ended public sit-ins, Scroll.in considers the …
Read More »The 2019 NRC list is not ‘final’; 4,700 names are not eligible, said Guwahati HC
Written by Abhishek Saha | Guwahati | Updated: December 10, 2020 3:21:40 am The NRC process has hit a stone wall since then and the NRC office has yet to issue refusal orders for the 19 lakh people excluded. (Archive) CONTRARY TO THE POSITION STATED so far, Assam’s NRC (National …
Read More »The CAA process will begin in January-February: BJP
By: Express News Service | Kolkata | December 7, 2020 6:00:45 am BJP leaders Kailash Vijayvargiya and Mukul Roy at the Ambedkar statue in Kolkata on Sunday. (Photo Express) BJP leaders Kailash Vijayvargiya and Mukul Roy have stated that the implementation process of the amended citizenship law will begin in …
Read More »BJP’s different reactions to anti-CAA and farmers protests reflect how it views Indian Muslims
On December 11, 2019, Parliament passed amendments to the Citizenship Law that sparked an unprecedented national protest movement against legislation and other government policies that discriminate against Muslims and violate constitutional standards. A year later, after the riots in Delhi and the Covid-19 pandemic ended public sit-ins, Scroll.in considers the …
Read More »UP Announces Cash Reward for Arrest of Escaped Anti-CAA and NRC Protesters
The government of Uttar Pradesh declared on Thursday the 14th of the laws against citizenship and the National Registry of Citizens as fugitives and announced cash rewards for their arrest. Eight of these protesters were declared wanted under the Gangster Act and notices were posted outside their homes. The defendants …
Read More »NRC fundamentally wrong … new after polls if SC permits: Himanta
Written by Abhishek Saha | Guwahati | Updated: November 6, 2020 10:47:02 am Assam’s Minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma. Ahead of the elections in Assam early next year, Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told the media on Thursday that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) released in August last year is “fundamentally …
Read More »2 days before the final phase of voting, Nitish raps Ally Yogi on CAA
Three days before the final phase of the vote, two allies have come face to face over the Citizenship Amendment Act. The recent vote by UP CM and BJP leader Yogi Adityanath to “kick out the intruders” appears to have upset his counterpart in Bihar, who dubbed the comment “faltu …
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