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In Assamese heartland, those who fought BJP’s citizenship law are now voting for ‘development’ Economics, and not identity, dominates election conversations. Voters in Upper Assam say development is central to the election, not citizenship battles. | Arunabh Saikia Fifteen months ago, within 24 hours of Parliament passing the Citizenship Amendment Act, five young men fell to police bullets in Guwahati as scorching protests swept through Assam. The controversial amendments fast-track Indian citizenship for undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan. In Assam, which shares a long border with Bangladesh, angry protestors declared the new law would spell the death knell for the Assamese identity. For years, the Congress had sheltered “illegal” Muslim migrants, they claimed, and now the Bharatiya Janata Party, which had promised to chase away all “infiltrators”, was doing the same by paving the way ....
AJP leaders address the media in Guwahati GUWAHATI: Amid widening political rift between the Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) and Raijor Dal (RD) after the two regional allies fielded candidates in same constituencies in some of the BJP strongholds in upper and northern Assam regions, the influential All Assam Minority Students’ Union (Aamsu) leader Azizur Rahman’s joining the Raijor Dal has given a major boost to the latter’s prospects in minority seats in lower Assam. Lower Assam is the saffron party’s weakest link, say party insiders. A ‘friendly contest’ between Congress and AIUDF in five lower Assam constituencies and the fear of losing grip over grassroots workers of the two grand alliance partners because of seat exchange may divide Muslim votes unexpectedly, benifitting peasant activist Akhil Gogoi’s RD. ....
Assam cabinet minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) no longer holds any relevance in the state’s politica ....