THE PASSAGE OF THE CITIZENSHIP (Amendment) Bill, 2019, has stoked the embers of the Assam movement of the 1980s and revived the anti foreigners agitation in the State in a more intensified form, which neither New Delhi nor Dispur could imagine. The Army was called out and additional Central forces were deployed in the State as spontaneous protests took the form of unprecedented mass resistance. Three protesters had been killed and several others hurt in police firing at the time of writing this report.
The situation went completely out of control in Guwahati on December 12 as support for the agitation grew exponentially. Repeated police firing in the air failed to deter angry and emotional protesters in the curfew-bound city. They regrouped at different locations and converged at the State Secretariat in Dispur in Guwahati and laid siege to it. The capital city virtually turned into abattlezone after the Lok Sabha passed the Bill on December 10, which is observed as Martyrs’ Day to commemorate the death of the first martyr of the Assam Movement, Khargeswar Talukdar. Several protesters were hurt in police action across the State as emotions ran high. The protesters vowed to make any sacrifice to resist the implementation of the CAB in Assam. Heavily escorted convoys of Ministers and top police brass had to retreat in the face of angry protests. Sounds of continuous police firing at different locations of Guwahati city could be heard at short intervals on December 12 throughout the day and until late in the night.
The protests refused to die down and they intensified and turned violent in some parts, including Guwahati city, despite tough measures adopted by the State government such as imposition of an indefinite curfew, suspension of Internet services, promulgation of Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and resort to firing of rubber bullets and tear gas and baton charge.
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