On the morning of January 7, in Delhi’s bone-chilling winter cold, a dozen or so youth from Assam stripped their clothes off and shouted slogans against the government.
They were protesting the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016, which provides a path to becoming Indian for non-Muslim migrants, mostly from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh, who have fled their countries because of religious persecution. The bill was passed in the Lok Sabha the next day though it got stuck in the upper house on January 9.
In Assam, the Asom Gana Parishad, a BJP ally, pulled out of the government. A bandh shut the state down on the day the bill was passed in the Lok Sabha.
Other northeastern states are troubled too. Meghalaya chief minister Conrad Sangma said over the phone that his National People’s Party had “always opposed this bill” and it would “take a call on our alliance with the NDA at an appropriate time”.
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