College students in opposition to CAA: After DU and Jamia, Assam college students’ group launches statewide ‘Satyagraha’ in opposition to Citizenship Modification Act

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Students against CAA: After DU and Jamia, Assam students' organization launches statewide 'Satyagraha' against Citizenship Amendment Act

CAA Protest 2024: The All Assam College students’ Union (AASU) is staging a ‘satyagraha’ statewide in opposition to the Citizenship Modification Act (CAA). Opposition events, together with the Congress, have joined the protests over the previous two days.
AASU plans to carry the ‘satyagraha’ in all district headquarters all through the day. Torchlight processions had been carried out by the scholars’ union in a number of areas on Tuesday night.
A delegation from AASU went to New Delhi on Tuesday to problem the Act within the Supreme Court docket.In the meantime, Assam’s opposition chief filed an software in search of a keep on the Act’s implementation.
Scholar and indigenous teams, together with political events, oppose the CAA, citing violations of the 1985 Assam Accord, which requires the deportation of these getting into from Bangladesh after March 24, 1971.
Below the CAA, persecuted non-Muslim migrants from neighbouring nations are granted Indian nationality till December 31, 2014.
Trinamool Congress plans to burn copies of the Act in all district headquarters.
Regardless of a ‘Sarbatamak Hartal’ known as by the United Opposition Discussion board Assam, the response was restricted. Assam Police issued notices to withdraw the hartal, emphasizing peaceable protests to stop public injury.
Safety is tightened throughout the state with further police deployment and elevated patrolling in cities and cities.