In protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, Twipra Students’ Federation (TSF) held a programme in Agartala on Sunday (Dec 11) and observed the day as the ‘black day’.

Speaking to the media, TSF president Maheswar Tripura said they were holding protest programme opposing the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB). Despite their intense agitation the Central government passed the CAB in the Rajya Sabha and CAA was enacted.

“We are vehemently opposing the CAA and demanding withdrawal of the CAA for the sake of the interest of people living in the State”, Maheswar Tripura commented.

Meantime, IANS reported:  The anti-CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) agitations returned to the northeastern region with the influential North East Students’ Organisation (NESO) on Sunday observing the third anniversary of the passage of the law in Parliament as ‘black day across the region.

Student bodies staged protests in the capitals of northeastern states on Sunday demanding scrapping of the contentious law by displaying black flags and banners.

The powerful student body, which is a conglomerate of eight student organisations of seven northeastern states including the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU), has been spearheading the agitations across the region since the BJP-led Central government moved the law in the Parliament in 2019.

In Assam, which was the epicentre of the anti-CAA protests in 2019, AASU held memorial gatherings at different places and offered floral tributes in the memory of the five people who were killed in firing during the agitations three years ago.

AASU President Utpal Sharma said they won’t accept the CAA as it is against the indigenous people and genuine citizens of India.

“We would continue our agitations against the CAA,” he told the media in Guwahati.

NESO Chairman Samuel B. Jyrwa said, “The observation of ‘black day’ is to give a message to the government of India that we are against the CAA and also at the same time to remind our people and our posterior of yet another political injustice that the government perpetrated on the indigenous peoples of the northeast.”