RECALLING 2020 NORTHEAST IN THE GONE BY

The year 2020 a series of events that will go down in history. The developments were nothing less than a roller coaster ride not only for the Northeastern region of India but for the entire world. As we are at the last juncture of this tumultuous year, Mumeninaz Zaman recalls the anecdotes of the journey so far.

- Mumeninaz Zaman

The wave of the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act, CAA, 2019 was still prevalent in the nation, when the news of a new strain of the virus that emerged in Wuhan, China just started seeping in throughout the world. A political crisis that the CAA ignited could have been reached to a certain conjecture, it was then the pandemic COVID-19 came into the picture. Although people were reeling under the pandemic and juggling between lockdown, being in quarantine and adapting to the new normal they have been fighting several other battles. Racial discrimination, amendment of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Baghjan Oil Well blowout, illegal coal mining in Dehing Patkai, interstate and international border dispute, and the extension of Armed forces are some of the issues from Northeast India that have weathered the year. While demands for political prisoners of the CAA movement are being raised time and again, the government on the other hand took the opportunity to pass and amend several Bills and Acts that have stoked protests in the region.

Here are the newsmakers that have grabbed the spotlight in the Northeast in the year 2020.

(Peace) Accords and Talks