THE BROKEN PROMISE: ASSAM MOVEMENT, ASSAM ACCORD AND C(A)A 2019
It was November, 2019. The location was the state of Assam, actually its Guwahati city, to be more precise. The otherwise busy National Highway 17 running through the city was drowning in utter silence and the pains and tears of the people living nearby. The only sound from the highway was that of the Paramilitary forces’ trucks, carrying Paramilitary jawaans to 'control situation'. Assam Police was there ready all the time. Some of us who reside by the highway used to go to the then all-time-empty highway and kept watching the road and looked up to the sky with eyes wet, in heartache, helplessness and frustration. There were protest rallies and gatherings in places of the city. We shouted slogans on the roads of the city for our people. We cried for our land and our culture. The young students wrote posters against then Citizenship Amendment Bill ( CAB), with their own blood. State Government imposed Section 144 in the city and in many other places of the state. Internet conne...