 "Prafulla Kumar Mahanta")
For some time now, Assam has been boiling. The streets across the state, barring the Barak Valley, have been witness to a slew of protests, aimed at the Narendra Modi government’s move to amend the Citizenship Act, 1955, to accommodate citizens of Bangladesh, besides two other countries, as Indians on religious lines.
In a state that left hundreds dead and many injured during a mass agitation against undocumented immigrants from Bangladesh, leading to an agreement with the central government to expel those foreigners who entered the state after March 25, 1971, the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill
