Summary:
After the government failed to pass the bill in the Rajya Sabha, peace had returned to the region. Gogoi urged BJP not to play politics with the sentiments of the people.Bora termed BJP’s move to bring the citizenship bill again for consideration a ‘blackmailing’ tactics. Shah’s stand on the bill has revealed they are not compassionate about the region,” he said.Reacting strongly to Shah’s statement, the All Assam Students’ Union said, “The BJP president’s standpoint, supporting the citizenship bill, is condemnable. “Apart from anti-BJP organizations and parties, several NDA allies and people from within the party have been opposing the bill. On the contrary, their design is to reduce the microscopic indigenous community to a minority by flooding the region with illegal Bangladeshis to achieve their Hindutva objective,” said a statement from the organisation..