The North East Students’ Organization (NESO), an umbrella body of eight student unions from northeastern states, has announced that December 11 will be observed annually as a 'black day' to express unwavering opposition to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019.
Assam, a state rich in history and culture, is no stranger to civil unrest and protests rooted in deep-seated issues of identity, governance, and development.
Delhi-based women refugees from Pakistan tied rakhi to Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan here on Monday.
Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah, on Sunday, distributed citizenship certificates among 188 refugees under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Ahmedabad.
The three youths who received the citizenship certificates at Bhopal from the CM are Rakhi Das and siblings Sanjana Melwani and Sameer Melwani.
Earlier, a right-wing group Hindu Sena had made a call to clear the Shaheen Bagh protest site on March 1.
The Congress veteran also trained his guns at the Centre over the abrupt transfer of the Delhi High Court Judge S Murlidhar calling it a "midnight surgical strike" resorted to by the Centre in the face of violence spiral in Northeast Delhi.
“It is strengthening the speculation that BJP’s top leadership and chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s hand-inglove which is why Shah can come to Kolkata. Miss Banerjee has not condemned the hate speeches by three BJP leaders including Union minister who instigated the Delhi riots,”CPM leader Sujan Chakraborty said.
Miss Banerjee expressed concern over the communal clashes in Delhi that have claimed at least 42 lives and said that steps should be taken so that the situation doesn't aggravate further.
The violence in North- East Delhi, that has claimed 39 lives, bears chilling similarities to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and the 2002 Gujarat riots as the rule of the mob held sway while the police and administration were mute spectators, and thereby almost complicit in the mayhem.
