People of Assam Still Don't Support CAB: Tarun Gogoi

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Guwahati, June 22, 2019:

Former Chief Minister and veteran Congress leader, Tarun Gogoi on Friday said that the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 has been brought up again by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to create misunderstandings among the people.

Addressing the media, Tarun Gogoi said, “BJP is voted into power with a huge sum of votes, but this does not mean that the people have agreed for the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016. This is because the election is related to many other issues. The BJP may claim that since they have won in Assam, people have supported the Citizenship Bill.”

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Gogoi added, “The Citizenship Bill did not get enough importance it should have and we have also failed in it. We could not penetrate into the people as it had many issued rolled within.”

Questing on the need of the Citizenship Bill, the former CM added, “The Bill has been brought just to create misunderstanding among the people. The Hindus in Bangladesh are saying that we are living here in peace; there is no need of the Bill. There are no atrocities in Assam.”

The Indian Citizenship Amendment Bill was proposed in Lok Sabha on July 19, 2016, amending the Citizenship Act of 1955. If this Bill is passed in Parliament, illegal migrants from minority communities like Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian coming from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan will then be eligible for Indian citizenship, excluding people from the Muslim community. The Bill relaxes the requirement of residence in India from 11 years to 6 years for these migrants.