' ( RNI Regn. No. CHHENG/2012/42718, Postal Reg. No. - RYP DN/34/2013-2015 !"#$ -)./01 )*+$+)$, )$&234 *)+"%, -. 22 0 / 3 0 4 0 10 01" 2 !"#$% # ' (()!#*)% % &% '(' ) !$&*+!,-. !*/ ! "#$%& '&( )* & !"R $%& nion Home Minister Amit UShah has cancelled his scheduled two-day visit to Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh in view of raging protests across the North-East alf a dozen Opposition- against the Citizenship Hruled States have refused Amendment Act. Home to implement the amended Ministry’s Parliamentary Citizenship Act, setting the Committee’s scheduled visit stage for an unprecedented on December 18-20 to Assam Constitutional crisis. was also cancelled in view of After West Bengal, Punjab the ongoing unrest in the area. and Kerala Chief Ministers The protest has now spread refused to implement the law / 1 from North-East to Delhi and in their respective States, CMs ( ' West Bengal where agitators set of Madhya Pradesh and (* + , afire a railway station, RPF ! " Chhattisgarh too said that kiosks and tracks. Lashing out $%%& ' (* + , their Governments will toe the to implement the Act. A top at the BJP-led Central line taken by his party’s Home Ministry official said Government over the amend- relaxed for five hours on Friday explosive in the region, the Central leadership on the State Governments have no ed Citizenship Act, West even as a large number of pro- Centre has kept on standby issue. powers to reject the imple- Bengal Chief Minister Mamata testers joined AASU’s call for a around 20 companies of the While Maharashtra State mentation of the Citizenship Banerjee said she would not 10-hour hunger strike in Central Armed Police Forces ! (-&. / !/ 1 ' ! + , Minister Nitin Raut asserted (Amendment) Act, 2019 as the allow its implementation in the Chandmari area of Guwahati. (CAPF) to move into Assam. that the State Government legislation was enacted under State “under any circum- AASU chief adviser Samujjal Shah was supposed to take against the contentious Act out flag marches in many dis- ties who have come from will not allow implementation the Union List of the 7th stances”. Addressing a Press Bhattacharya said that the part in the passing-out parade which was passed by tricts to control the situation. Pakistan, Bangladesh and of the law, Delhi Chief Schedule of the Constitution. meet here, Mamata said the saf- protests will continue. at the North Eastern Police Parliament on Wednesday and Protesters torched several Afghanistan till December 31, Minister Arvind Kejriwal has “If the State Government fron party can’t bulldoze the Shah was scheduled to Academy near Shillong on given the Presidential assent on vehicles and shops in Shillong 2014 due to religious persecu- also slammed the Act. refuse to provide police pro- States to implement the law. attend a passing-out parade in Sunday and a festival in Tawang Thursday night. in the last two days. tion there will not be treated as At the same time, address- tection to the settlers, it would The indefinite curfew Shillong on Saturday and visit the next day. Amid the continuing According to the amended illegal immigrants and given ing a protest rally organised by be impossible to implement which was in force in Assam’s Arunachal Pradesh later to At least two persons were unrest, curfew has been Citizenship Act, members of Indian citizenship. All Assam Students’ Union the law,” said a political expert. Dibrugarh municipal area in attend cultural functions. killed in police firing in Assam imposed at several places in Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, While the intensity of the (AASU), Arabinda Rajkhowa, “The States have no pow- view of the violent protests was As the situation remains following widespread protests Assam, while Army carried Parsi and Christian communi- protest in the North-East the ULFA pro-talk faction ers to deny implementation of against the new citizenship chairman, claimed that under a Central law which is in the law showed marginal signs of no circumstances they would Union List,” the top official abating with relaxation in cer- allow the implemention of the from the Home Ministry said. tain parts for limited hours, law. The pro-talk faction of the West Bengal Chief areas in neighbouring West ULFA asserted that the Minister Mamata Banerjee Bengal were also engulfed in amended Citizenship Act, if said, “In your (BJP) manifesto, sporadic violence leading to implemented, would threaten instead of development issues, vandalisation of public prop- the identity and existence of you have put in promise to erty and clashes with the police the people of Assam. divide the country. Why will by the protesters. After the Motor Vehicle citizenship be on the basis of On Thursday, no violent Amendment Act (MVA), this religion? I will not accept this. he spate of foreign leaders incidents were reported from is the second decision made We dare you...,” Mamata said Tdeferring their visits to Guwahati, the centre of violent during the Modi Government who has also opposed the India continued on Friday as protests, but peaceful protests in recent times that has been implementation of National Japanese Prime Minister were held by AASU and some rejected by State Governments. Register of Citizens (NRC) in Shinzo Abe postponed his other outfits. The Home Ministry offi- the State. summit with Prime Minister Continued on Page 4 cials said the States can’t refuse Continued on Page 4 Narendra Modi in Guwahati next week. Assam and other parts of North-East are wit- nessing protests following the P passage of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB), 2019 clearly conveyed to New Delhi by Parliament earlier this week. that it would not be possible for On Thursday, Bangladesh Abe to travel to Guwahati in fter States like Punjab, Foreign, Finance and Home view of large-scale protests in AKerala and West Bengal, Ministers had cancelled their the Northeastern city. They Chhattisgarh too has decided visits at the last minute. Sources said the summit is now expect- not to implement Citizenship " ' / ! !' said the Japanese Government ed to take place next year. Amedment Bill (CAB) which * + 23 4' ' , conveyed to India that it will Asked whether an alternative has now became an Act after not be possible for their Prime venue was considered, sources President signed it. Minister to travel to Assam in said the option was not Chief Minister Bhupesh view of the unrest. The summit explored as hosting a leader- Baghel on Friday announced was scheduled from December ship-level summit involves long that the Amended Act 15-17 in Guwahati. preparations. would not be implemented in External Affairs Ministry The External Affairs the State. Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar Ministry last week announced Baghel made the said both India and Japan have the dates for Abe’s visit but did announcement while talking to decided to “defer” Abe’s visit for not mention the venue. reporters at Raipur’s eral students and cops were were baton-charged by police. the summit to a mutually con- However, preparations were in Swami Vivekanand Airport hurt. Of 42 students, who were The students resorted to stone- venient date. full swing in Guwahati for the before proceeding to the amia Millia Islamia witnessed detained with ten locals, were pelting. “With reference to the pro- high-profile summit. national Capital. Ja pitched battle between stu- released later. However, the protestors posed visit of Japanese Prime Sources said a Japanese Answering to a query from dents, including locals, and A senior police official said alleged that police resorted to Minister Abe to India, both team visited Guwahati on a media person about senior police on Friday afternoon 12 police personnel were stone-pelting first and students sides have decided to defer the Wednesday to take stock of the minister TS Singhdeo’s tweet after they were stopped at the injured in the clash. threw stones in response to the visit to a mutually convenient preparations following which about the new Citizenship Act, varsity gate from carrying out “Conditions of two of them is attack. To buttress their claims, date in the near future,” he said Tokyo clearly conveyed to the the CM made it clear that the their march towards said to be critical and they are students posted on social in response to a query on the Ministry that Abe’s visit cannot new Act would not be Commenting on Union tion of politics’. The level of BJP Parliament to protest against admitted in Intensive Care media videos showing police summit. go ahead under current cir- implemented in order to ‘pro- Government’s move of printing is so diminished that it is now the Citizenship Act. Unit (ICU),” said the official. caning the protestors. Diplomatic sources said cumstances. tect the constitutional values of lotus in the passport, the Chief printing its party symbol in the In the ensuing clash, sev- The students claimed they Continued on Page 4 the Japanese Government has Continued on Page 4 the country’. Minister said it was ‘degrada- passport, he stated. 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