On Monday, the authorities have cancelled the meeting organised by Khilonjia Manch in Assam’s Cachar district to push for the scrapping of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016. It was supposed to be held on Wednesday. Wednesday’s meeting would have been attended by pro-talks leaders of United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
Cachar superintendent of police Rakesh Roshan said, “This meeting could have created tensions between two groups.”
Assam’s Brahmaputra Valley and Barak Valley continue to be divided over the proposed law. ULFA members are against the Centre’s move to amend the citizenship laws to ensure that six minority communities, except Muslims, in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh are not treated as illegal immigrants in the country.
While those in support see “a solution to the suffering” of the Hindu refugees, those opposing the proposed amendments call the move “communal and anti-Constitutional”.
Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal recently said that the state government would wait until work on updating the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was complete before making its stand clear.

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