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The AASU’s recent general conference, which was held in Jonai in Dhemaji district recently, unanimously decided on the cooling off period and said that no office-bearer will be allowed to join a political party after completion of his tenure. read more

During his address at the fourth conclave of North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA), a BJP-led front of parties from the region, in Guwahati on Monday, Shah had indicated that the Centre plans to enact the bill. read more

The AASU is a signatory to the Assam Accord, a 1985 document that provided for “detection, deletion and deportation” of illegal foreigners from Assam. read more

Assam NRC list was released on Saturday morning leaving out about 1.9 million people from the register. These people will now need to file appeals at foreigners’ tribunals to prove their citizenship. read more

The NRC exercise in Assam has come under fire for the process of identification of illegal immigrants in the state and has become a contentious issue in the state politics read more

Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal said the 70th Republic Day was very significant for people of the state. But the Congress and several non-political groups said that scrapping the Citizenship Bill which has the entire Northeast up in arms, would have been... read more

The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill seeks to confer citizenship on non-Muslim religious groups from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. read more

The open overtures from the Congress, including from former chief minister Tarun Gogoi, on at least two occasions, suggest possibilities of potential new political fronts in the future. At present, however, the common ground, leaders of both parties... read more

Assam and six other states in the northeast came to a near standstill on Tuesday as several student bodies enforced an 11-hour shutdown in protest over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill. read more

A large number of these complaints have been filed with the assistance of ‘indigenous’ groups, including the All Assam Students Union (AASU), which led the anti-foreigners movement in Assam. read more

In the video uploaded on Facebook recently, All Assam Students’ Union leader Pankaj Protim Dutta claims he has joined the United Liberation Front of Assam (Independent), a banned insurgent outfit read more

Rajnath Singh said the NRC was necessary to identify Indian citizens and weed out illegal immigrants. read more

Various ethnic, civil society and political groups in Assam are up in arms against the Centre’s proposed Bill to grant citizenship to persecuted religious minorities from neighbouring countries. read more