![]() ![]() Students show their support for Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in Assam’s Barak Valley. Many believe that the legislation would rectify the wrongs to the state’s Hindu Bengali community. ![]() ![]() Post Partition, a sizeable Bengali-Hindu population had migrated to the Barak Valley to escape religious persecution in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). ![]() On Tuesday, however, a few students (who come from different parts of Assam) had held protests in the university following a bandh call by the North East Students’ Organisation (NESO). In fact, the Bill has come too late,” said Milan Das of Assam University. It was a national promise that our persecuted brothers and sisters would get citizenship. “We gathered at the Shahid Minar in our college, lit candles to show our support for the Bill. Students of Assam University in Silchar took out a torchlight procession in support of the bill on Wednesday evening. Even as thousands of students around Assam have held vociferous protests against the contentious legislation, which seeks to give citizenship to illegal migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh, students of Assam University in Silchar took out a torchlight procession in its support on Wednesday evening. ![]()
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