Barak Valley upset over citizenship bill not making it through Rajya Sabha

  • | Thursday | 14th February, 2019

Dev, who had been supporting the bill going against her party, said she is very upset over the government’s failure to move the bill in the Rajya Sabha. Silchar: On a day when there were celebrations across Assam after the Centre failed to push the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, in the Rajya Sabha, the mood was sombre in the Bengali Hindu-dominated Barak Valley which had lent its support to the bill.Congress MP from Silchar Sushmita Dev said the government could have tabled the Bill in the Rajya Sabha for debate. “The government passed the bill in the Lok Sabha without any amendment. The present form of the bill has nothing to with the fate of Partition victims. “The government did not even go for moving the bill which shows that it was under the pressure of Neda chief ministers and Union minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju,” she added.

Silchar: On a day when there were celebrations across Assam after the Centre failed to push the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, in the Rajya Sabha, the mood was sombre in the Bengali Hindu-dominated Barak Valley which had lent its support to the bill.Congress MP from Silchar Sushmita Dev said the government could have tabled the Bill in the Rajya Sabha for debate. “The government did not even go for moving the bill which shows that it was under the pressure of Neda chief ministers and Union minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju,” she added. Dev, who had been supporting the bill going against her party, said she is very upset over the government’s failure to move the bill in the Rajya Sabha. Taking a dig at PM Modi, she said the BJP government staged a drama despite knowing very well that the bill would not be passed in the Upper House.Barak Upatyaka Banga Sahitya O Sanskriti Sammelon president Sourindra Kumar Bhattacharjee said his organization wanted an amended version of the bill. “The government passed the bill in the Lok Sabha without any amendment. The present form of the bill has nothing to with the fate of Partition victims. Despite this, we are upset over the fate of the bill,” he added.All Barak Students and Youth Association chief adviser Baharul Islam Barbhuiyan, however, said this is the victory of the democractic movement of the people of the northeast.On January 4, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had mentioned at a public rally in Silchar that the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, is a ‘prayaschitta’ (atonement) for the mistakes committed during Partition.

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