Home Minister Rajnath Singh to meet Northeast CMs in Delhi

Guwahati, January 31, 2019:

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has called a meeting with the Chief Ministers of North Eastern states to discuss the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016.

According to reports, the meeting will be held in New Delhi at 3 pm today.

It may be mentioned that the Chief Ministers of North Eastern states, who oppose the Bill, held a meeting on January 29 at hotel Vivanta by Taj in Guwahati, Assam. The Chief Ministers of Meghalaya, Mizoram along with the representatives of parties of Tripura, Assam, Manipur and Nagaland, some of them allied with the BJP, passed a resolution to take the matter of the Bill to the President and Prime Minister.

Many North Eastern allies of the BJP, in fact, have threatened to move out of the alliance if the NDA fails to scrap the Bill and passes it in the Rajya Sabha.

It may be mentioned that Assam and other NE states especially Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, and Tripura are undergoing unrest over the amendment of Citizenship Bill that gives citizenship to illegal migrants who are Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from the neighboring countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.