CITIZENSHIP AMENDMENT ACT (CAA), 2019 AND ISSUE OF MIGRATION IN ASSAM

The Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 is another step to redress long standing migration problem of North-East in general and Assam in particular. The decision of the introduction of citizenship amendment bill, 2016 in the Lok Sabha led to political backlash in the state and unrest in society. After the passing of bill in 2019 Dec by the Parliament and after getting assent of President the bill became as an act i.e. Citizenship amendment Act, 2019 (CAA) an anarchical environment has occurred across the state. People have been leading a life of anxiety and panic. All civil society organization, student union, common people has simultaneously came forward and started protest against discriminatory bill passed by the parliament. The people of Assam have fear that with the introduction of CAA Assamese became a minority in their own soil. And they thought that it also threatened to the Assamese culture and tradition. Bondhs, demonstration has created a lawlessness environment where normalized life of common people was stopped. Importantly, the act of 2019 have no any provision regarding the protection of Assamese indigenous people so that Assamese people vehemently protested towards the protection of their identity, as the act has provided additional opportunity to the migrant community to established their influence in the field of economic and political sector. Therefore the present paper tries to explore the Citizenship Amendment Act and the issue of migration in Assam with the help of secondary sources collected from various published and unpublished reports, articles books etc.