Celebrations in Assam, Tripura as Citizenship Bill not tabled in Rajya Sabha

Assam/Tripura, Feb 14 After the Citizenship (amendment) Bill, which is set to pass on June 3, was not tabled in the Rajya Sabha celebrations broke out crosswise over upper east which had been vehemently protesting against it.

The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 provides for according Indian citizenship to Hindus, Jains, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan following six years of living arrangement in India rather than 11 years, which is the standard as of now, even if they don't possess any document.

The Budget session was the last Parliament session of the present government as the Lok Sabha polls are due this summer.

In Assam, supporters of different associations disturbing against the bill, which was passed in the Lok Sabha on January 8, were seen turning out to the boulevards, blasting wafers, sharing desserts and moving.

Associations like the All Assam Students Union (AASU), Krishak Mukti Sangram Samity (KMSS), Assam Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chhatra Parishad (AJYCP) claimed that not passing of the bill in the Rajya Sabha is a "triumph of majority rule government, of the general population of Assam and the upper east area against communal forces".

AGP leader and previous Assam chief minister Prafulla Mahanta, party chief Atul Bora, Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma, AASU counselor Samujjal Bhattacharya, KMSS chief Akhil Gogoi and best political leaders of the Congress are in Delhi to crusade against the bill.

Congress leader Pradyut Bordoloi said the general population were "spared today from the intrigue of the BJP to wreck the general population in the N-E area". "This just energy of the people has to continue against the communal forces," he added.

Assam PCC president Ripun Bora said the gathering battled against the questionable bill under the direction of UPA administrator Sonia Gandhi and AICC president Rahul Gandhi.

The dubious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was inclined to be postponed in Rajya Sabha on February 13 in the midst of dissents in the upper east against the bill.

Tribal outfits and other organisations in the BJP-ruled Tripura communicated satisfaction on Wednesday over the Center's inability to get the dubious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill go in the Rajya Sabha. Students' associations, political parties and people contradicting the bill said the aggregate development of all against the legislation had won.

The North East Students Organization (NESO) said the bill was not passed in Parliament since the general population of the area and different parts of the nation were joined against it and supported their fight. "We got results in our favour due to a brought together and joint exertion of the people from north-east and different parts of the nation. We are appreciative to everybody who have bolstered us," NESO joint secretary Upendra Debbarma told reporters.

The NESO, an umbrella association of various understudy associations in the district contradicted to the bill, had watched a bandh in the north-eastern states on January 8. "We are enchanted. Because of the aggregate development of different associations and ideological groups, the BJP government had no option however to give the bill a chance to pass," Tribal Students' Federation (TSF) general secretary Sunil Debbarma said.

Sunil Debbarma expressed gratitude toward Congress president Rahul Gandhi, JD(U) boss Nitish Kumar, Shiv Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray and different pioneers for their restriction to the bill. State CPI(M) secretary Goutam Das said what occurred in the Rajya Sabha was an impression of the challenges held in the district against the bill. He complimented every one of the MPs for their job in Parliament.

The scion of the past imperial group of Tripura, Pradyot Kishore Manikya, said the country had prevailed upon legislative issues. "Jati jeeta hai, party hara hai (the country has won and the gathering has lost). In any case, we must be wary. If they are elected again, the central government may attempt to bring it back through indirect access," he said in a Facebook post.

The Indigenous Peoples' Front of Tripura (IPFT), a partner of the decision BJP, asserted that the bill was not put in the Rajya Sabha as Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had acceded to the party's request not to pass it.

In Mizoram, civil society groups and student associations in Mizoram ended their protest. As indicated by NGO Coordination Committee, an umbrella association of common society gatherings and understudy bodies in the express, the planned encourages against the bill were called off on Wednesday after news of the legislation's lapse reached them.