TIWN May 9, 2018
AGARTALA, May 9 (TIWN): Massive rallies, agitations were staged today by tribal regional parties opposing proposed citizenship bill led by the separate state aspirants.
One day hunger strike was observed at the Khumulwng today by the parties under ‘Joints Parliamentary Committee’ (JPC).
They raised slogan ‘Stop Citizenship Act’ 1955 forthwith’.
They also added in slogan ‘Tripura is a victim of illegal immigrants’.
"If the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, is passed in Parliament, the indigenous people in Tripura and other northeastern states would be affected”, the agitators said.
"Bangladeshi migrants through this proposed law would be settled in eastern and northeastern India depriving the original people of the region of basic rights," the tribal leaders said.
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