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Protest over citizenship for Hindu migrants(The Hindu)
Context
During a JPC hearing, parties and organisations say it’s a move to legitimise post-1971 settlers
What has happened?
The Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 began a hearing in Assam on Monday amid protests across the Brahmaputra Valley against the Union government’s alleged move to make the State a “legitimise Hindus who have migrated from Bangladesh after 1971”.
Violation of Assam Accords 1985
- The Bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha on July 15, 2016, seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslims who had fled persecution in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, indigenous groups in Assam view it as a move to legitimise post-1971 Hindu migrants.
- They see it as a violation of the provisions of the Assam Accord of 1985 — it ended a six-year anti-foreigners’ agitation — that prescribes deportation for everyone who entered the State illegally after the midnight of March 24, 1971
