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A high-level committee met Home Minister Amit Shah to discuss Clause 6 of Assam Accord which ensures ever-lasting constitutional safeguards on rights over politics, land, culture, language, and employment as well as trade and commerce of the Assamese, indigenous Assamese and other ethnic groups living in Assam. According to reports, “The committee will assess the appropriate level of reservation of seats in Assam Legislative Assembly and local bodies for the Assamese people.” Set up by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the committee was created to assess and recommend appropriate measures that can ensure the rights of indigenous people.
The All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) has warned both Delhi and Dispur not to confuse the people by linking the Clause 6 of Assam Accord with the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) even as the influential students’ organization has been submitting proposals to the governments for the last 34 years to ensure Constitutional safeguard to indigenous people of the State. AASU’s chief advisor Samujjal Bhattacharya while interacting with reporters at Swahid Nyas here on Sunday afternoon, said that Clause 6 is meant to provide Constitutional safeguard to the indigenous people of the State for taking the burden of illegal Bangladeshis who had come to the State between 1951 and 1971 as per the Assam Accord.
A division bench of the Gauhati High Court has summoned the ADGP, CID, Assam with a response as to why proceedings under the ‘Contempt of Court Act, 1971’ be not initiated against him. The High Court bench had to summon the police officer for not complying with an ‘extracted order’ issued by it in a PIL filed against the alleged multi-crore-rupee scam in the disbursement of compensation in connection with construction of the Jhanji-Demow stretch of the four-lane National Highway in Sivasagar district.
Human trafficking from Assam to other states of the country has been on the rise, and there are a number of reasons for such a trend. And one of the emergent causes for such a trend is joblessness in Assam. According to police sources, as many as 91 cases of human trafficking were reported in 2016 in the State, 175 in 2017, 238 in 2018 and 87 till June in 2019. It is seen that the rise in the number of such cases after every successive year is astronomical. What leads to such a situation?
In a joint operation launched by Kokrajhar Police and 25th Rajput Regiment on Saturday a person called Abdul Khaleqe Mandal (22) was arrested. He was suspected to belong to a Muslim Fundamental Organization.
Former cricketer Sunil Gavaskar has called for unity in this hour of “turmoil.” “Some of our youngsters are out on the street when they should be in their classrooms. Some of them are ending up in hospitals for being out on the streets,” he said while delivering the 26th Annual Lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial Lecture in New Delhi, according to media reports. He had also urged people to stand together and be “simply India.”
Writer Arundhati Roy came out in support of students protesting against CAA at Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia. According to media reports, Roy stood in front of gate seven and said, “I have come here to tell you that I am with you,” she told students in front of gate seven of the university, also known as Jamia Square. “Now that we have all come together, no detention centre will be big enough to fill us in. I hope that a day will come when this government, which is trying to break the nation, will be in the detention centre and we will be azaad [free]. We won’t back down.” The crowd repeated after her and cheered her on as she shouted slogans of “Inquilab zindabad” ( “JNU zindabad”, and “Desh ki janta zindabad”