{"id":317773,"date":"2019-12-12T05:03:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T05:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=317773"},"modified":"2019-12-12T05:03:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T05:03:16","slug":"despite-curfew-people-protest-against-cab-in-guwahati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/despite-curfew-people-protest-against-cab-in-guwahati\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Curfew, people protest against CAB in Guwahati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-317775 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/protest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/protest.jpg 655w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/protest-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/protest-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/protest-571x420.jpg 571w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/>Despite curfew, the people in Guwahati were still on the streets on Thursday morning to protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB) which was passed by the Parliament on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Guwahati, the epicentre of anti-CAB protests, was placed under indefinite curfew on Wednesday night while the Army was called in at four places and Assam Rifles personnel were deployed in Tripura.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Several trains that start from Assam have been cancelled or rescheduled due to the strong protests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Internet services have already been suspended in the entire state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Wednesday, Anti-CAB protesters descended on the streets of Assam, clashing with police and plunging the state into chaos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress party has, meanwhile, called for a shutdown in Tripura today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) 2019. The bill was earlier passed in Lok Sabha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The bill was passed in Rajya Sabha with 125 votes in favor of it, whereas the bill received 105 votes in protest. Earlier the proposal to send the bill to the Select Committee and Proposals for other amendments also fell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Shiv Sena walked out of the Rajya Sabha instead of opposing the bill. On the other hand, Congress President Sonia Gandhi, in a statement after the passing of the bill, has described the day as \u201cblack day\u201d in the history of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite curfew, the people in Guwahati were still on the streets on Thursday morning to protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB) which was passed by the Parliament on Wednesday. Guwahati, the epicentre of anti-CAB protests, was placed under indefinite curfew on Wednesday night while the Army was called in at four places and Assam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":317775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2459,2030,2014],"tags":[1760,669],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317773"}],"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=317773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317776,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317773\/revisions\/317776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/317775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}