Assam: Curfew withdrawn from Guwahati; internet partially restored
Guwahati/UNI: Protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019, continued in Assam, though there was no further disruption of law and order situation, leading to the lifting of curfew from main city Guwahati, while internet services were also restored partially on Tuesday.
The overall situation across the state improved gradually, with no fresh incidents of violence reported in over 48 hours.
This has led to withdrawal of indefinite curfew from Guwahati city from 0600 hours today, while in Dibrugarh town, it was relaxed for 15 hours today.
The night curfew in few other parts of eastern Assam is also likely to be withdrawn soon.
Internet services, which were blocked in 10 districts of the state since evening of December 11, were partially restored since 0900 hours this morning with all service provides of Broadband internet allowed to resume their service.
Mobile internet service, however, remained suspended till 0900 hours of December 18, with the ban likely to be withdrawn after that.
Train services have started to be restored, with running of local and intercity passenger trains resumed today after about remaining cancelled for more than four days.
Running of Delhi and Mumbai bound trains had resumed three days back, though east and southern bound trains from NFR have been cancelled for the last three days due to violence during anti-CAA protests in West Bengal.
Meanwhile, protests against the CAA continued in different parts of the state.
The All Assam Students Union (AASU) carried out its ‘satyagraha’ programme in different parts, including in Guwahati and Nagaon, for the second day today.
The protestors, led by central AASU leadership, also courted arrest in Guwahati.
A 36-hour hunger strike by Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) at Guwahati entered the second day today, with the youth organization to take up different forms of agitation at the conclusion of this protest.
Assam has been opposing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, that seeks to grant Indian citizenship to illegal Hindu, Parsi, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist and Christian migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, who had entered India prior to December 31, 2014, without any documents.
People of North Eastern states, especially Assam and Tripura, are demanding its revocation as they fear being ‘overrun’ by non-Muslims from neighbouring Bangladesh.
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