{"id":317627,"date":"2019-12-10T04:50:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T04:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=317627"},"modified":"2019-12-10T04:50:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T04:50:36","slug":"northeast-calls-for-bandh-against-citizenship-amendment-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/northeast-calls-for-bandh-against-citizenship-amendment-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Northeast calls for bandh against Citizenship Amendment Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_304583\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-304583\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-304583\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Assam-shutdown.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Assam-shutdown.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Assam-shutdown-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Assam-shutdown-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Assam-shutdown-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Assam-shutdown-696x365.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Assam-shutdown-1068x561.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Assam-shutdown-800x420.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-304583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">To protest the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill which was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Monday, a bandh was called by Northeast today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The strike which began at 5 am on Tuesday has disrupted normal life in several parts of the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The bandh called by several indigenous organisations will observe the shutdown till 4 pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, the security was beefed up in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura, but Nagaland has been exempted from the purview of the bandh in view of the ongoing Hornbill Festival there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In several places, protesters burnt tyres and blocked national highways, but police intervene and clear the roads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dibrugarh University and Gauhati University in the state have postponed all examinations scheduled for tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Bill would not be applicable to Mizoram, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh where the inner line permit (ILP) system exists and those tribal regions of Assam, Tripura and Meghalaya which are governed under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill seeks to grant Indian Citizenship to persons belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities who have migrated to India after facing persecution on grounds of religion in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, if they fulfil conditions for grant of citizenship.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To protest the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill which was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Monday, a bandh was called by Northeast today. The strike which began at 5 am on Tuesday has disrupted normal life in several parts of the state. The bandh called by several indigenous organisations will observe the shutdown till 4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":304583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2931,2929,2030,2014],"tags":[1760,669],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317629,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317627\/revisions\/317629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}