The Citizenship Amendment Act, or CAA, is a law passed by the Indian Parliament in 2019. It aims to amend the country’s citizenship laws, defines illegal immigrants and lays down the rules and prerequisites for applying for Indian citizenship. It allows minorities of six communities, namely Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians, from India’s neighboring countries — Pakistan, Afghanistan, or Bangladesh — who entered India before 31 December 2014 to get citizenship more easily on the grounds of religious persecution.
The introduction of this bill led to mass protests from students, civil society, and the opposition parties as religion for the first time was made a test of Indian citizenship. The most notable was a 100-plus day protest in Shaheen Bagh, a working-class Muslim neighbourhood in the country’s capital, New Delhi with Muslim women at the forefront of this protest.
Four years after the CAA’s initial introduction and passing, the rules were brought into effect in March 2024.
Is this article a lame joke…tripuris are the worst sufferers of Hindu Bangladeshi immigration in current times when they opened their gates to refugees on humanitarian grounds who later flooded tripura turning the indigenous into minorities and stripped them away of their rights, culture, identity and political representation…Cachar which itself is named after Kachari kingdom in Assam has now been flooded with Bangladeshis and has no Assamese populace residing…the day CAA gives you the benefit of turning majority in near future, you will be the first one to replace Assamese by Bengali language aided with Constitutional provision granting the right of doing the same after electing representative of your own…Assamese people are the most soft hearted and carong people but everyone loves their language and culture and will not bear invasive attitude…everyone knows how the visiting Assamese people are mistreated in Silchar..
Just by making false historical narration your dead Slytheti Bengali Hindu ancestors won’t be washed off from their sins. Stop blaming Assamese people and Bengali muslims. Your Bengali Hindu ancestors themselves for all their problems.
IF BENGALI HINDUS WERE IN MAJORITY IN SLYTHET why did they gave vote to MUSLIM LEAGUE TO FORM ITS FIRST GOVERNMENT in COLONIAL ASSAM AFTER DIVISION OF ASSAM FROM BENGAL. It was during those days when Bengali Muslim peasant settlement started and Bengali Hindus supported them. They wanted Assam to become Bengali State but Muslim league later changed their mind of taking Assam into Bangladesh so butthurt Bengali Hindus now blame them for what they suffered.
THIS ARTICLE CLEARLY SHOWS HOW BIAS AND HATRED MAINLAND INDIANS ARE AGAINST NORTHEASTERNS. They publish an article written by an ETHNO NATIONALIST BENGALI JOURNALIST to show hatred for the leaders of Northeast India who saved northeast from becoming like Chittagong Hill Tract . They compare us to Germans when their Leaders Like Subhash Bose was friend Of NAZI HITLER. Such a bias reporting never expected from Print Media. But we know now who’s more important to India and where actually Indian borders end. INDIA’S BORDER END IN BENGAL IN ACTUAL THOUGH GEOGRAPHICALLY IT EXTENDS TO NORTHEAST INDIA.
THIS ARTICLE WRITTEN BY BENGALI NATIONALIST JOURNALIST CLEARLY STATES THAT INDIA BORDER ENDS IN BENGAL. THEY ONLY TOOK NORTHEAST INDIANS TO EXPLOIT THEM AND FABRICATE LIES ABOUT THEM.
This Journalist Haven’t mentioned properly about the sylhet partition and how majority of the region went to Bangladesh. NEVER THOUGHT QUINT WILL SUPPORT SUCH BIAS REPORTING. During colonial times when Assam was separated from British Bengal province Slythet was added to Assam and Bengalis brought Muslim league from North India and formed the first Muslim league government in Assam with the help of Slytheti Muslim majority. Since Slythet was majority muslim region only Karimganj was having majority Hindu region in Slythet. During colonial times during the 1947 referendum – Muslim elites who previously argued for integration with Assam, now argue for a separation from Assam and the integration of Sylhet into East Bengal, Pakistan. Whereas the Hindu elites who previously argued for a Bengali identity and a united Bengal, now argue for the continuation of Sylhet to remain integrated with Assam and join India. But with majority muslim votes Slythet went into Bangladesh and the small region of Slythet Karimganj remained in Assam. Please go through history of Slythet. Gopinath bordoloi himself went there to campaign among the Muslims and with the help of their leaders to teach them the benefits of staying in a secular country rather than religious one. The Muslims minorities in that region who were almost 40-50% of the population decided to stay with India rather than joining Bangladesh or East Pakistan.
PLEASE STOP YOUR BIASED REPORTING YOU ARE A NATIONAL MEDIA IF YOU ALL REPORT BIAS THINGS WRITTEN BY A BENGALI ETHNIC NATIONALIST JOURNALIST YOU CANNOT BE DIFFERENT FROM ANY RIGHT WING JOURNALS.
I know Bengalis are holding strong power in every field in India governance, media and even on writing history text books so you all will find it difficult to get the truth. As Bengali Hindus are mostly ethno nationalist who does everything to suppress and hide their Bengali history of wrongdoings. That’s why we hardly hear anything about the tripuris in tripura and koch people in Koch Behar, North Bengal and only bashing of Assamese people.
Please refer to my book written on the traditional exercises of the Syllheti Bengalis. My book is entitled as, “SEMI-OBLIVIOUS SOCIO-RELIGIOUS MORES OF THE HINDU BENGALIS OF BARAK VALLEY”
if any one wants to read it he/she may look for the book in amazon, flipkart or in Kobo. Please also let me know about your reactions through my email.
bishwaychamakg@rediffmail.com
A system of fabricated lies worked out by a pro – bongali intellectual. However we don’t care for people like you.
And yes bengalis have great footprint on globe as refugees, illegal immigrants and illegal settlers
Congratulations Malini mam for this wonderful article. I believe in Assam there is an urgent need for self introspection of Syllheti genocide as the German did after the in 2nd world war.
One day they have to answer history. Is it a sign of civilization to attack unarmed refugees. The sooner they realize the better.
ha ha every body wants Assamese people to defame.The more you try to defame us more it gets easier to achieve our aim.
Why Assamese are targeted
Is it the lobby who wants to diminish our faces from the face of the world?.Sylhet was an integral part of greater Assamese culture, and later it was flooded by the bengali speakers.Anti Assamese sentiment and to defame our leaders like Sukapha will cost The country in long run.Identity of Assamese people should be respected, if bengalis have problem then they can go to Bangladesh or West Bengal. And what about tripura?why that state is screwed?Did this Bengali leaders ever asked about it?What about cooch behar?Did you know that the assembly of cooch behar was burned down!Did they ever asked about it?Sylhet was given to Pakistan, then where the heck your bengali nationalism was?I guess Bangladeshis are bengali too?Why don’t bengalis go for a referendum and join with Bangladesh.Stop aryanization, stop targetting Assamese people,we have only one Assam and we will protect it till our last breath.
Sylhet was indeed “given” to Pakistan. But not by the Bengalis residing in Sylhet. But by your very own Gopinath Bordoloi. A man whose xenophobia knew no bounds.
Exactly! When it was announced that India was to be partitioned off to create Muslim majority Pakistan, it was proposed that Assam was to be integrated with Pakistan too owing to the presence of huge no of bengali muslims there.
It was then that the Assam govt and the people of Assam became too concerned about their bengalee majority Sylhet region and they became too keen on handing it over to East Bengal/Pakistan.
Exactly! When it was announced that India was to be partitioned off to create Muslim majority Pakistan, it was proposed that Assam was to be integrated with Pakistan too owing to the presence of huge no of bengali muslims there.
It was then that the Assam govt and the people of Assam became too concerned about their bengalee majority Sylhet region and they became too keen on handing it over to East Bengal/Pakistan.
Just making false historical narration your dead Slytheti Bengali Hindu ancestors won’t be washed off from their sins. Stop blaming Assamese people and Bengali muslims. Your Bengali Hindu ancestors themselves have put this problem on themselves.
If Bengali Hindus were in majority in Slythet why did they gave vote to Muslim league to form its first government in colonial Assam after division of Assam from Bengal. They wanted Assam to become Bengali State but Muslim league later changed their mind of taking Assam into Bangladesh so butthurt Bengali Hindus now blame them for what they suffered.
Mr P Bongali,
Come to the overground.. I suspect you are a genuine Axomia or may be a party member affiliated to group of people from ‘tukre tukre gang’ of those days responsible for partition. .For ‘pheku’ Axomia like you, people from the land of honoured Bhupen Hazarika, can not get recognition beyond Axom. Shame on person like you ,& post like that, who are undermining Axomia. You are the stigma of the Axomia people.
“Better late than never.” Well researched article about the hapless people from the deprived Syllhet district of Bengal who could not find a tall leader to counter chauvinist Gopinath Bordoloi who like others were the bad assets of Congress party.
Please write another article why Sylhet could not produce a tall leader, after Bipin Pal, who could have settled the issues of forcefully evicted people from that part of Bengal suffering consecutively for three generations.
Interestingly people of Cachar, where the forcefully evicted people took the refuge & who shares common culture & language with that part of Bengal, also coined them as ‘refugees’ not to say about other discrimination perpetrated on them.
Who is that stupid F. Bongali trying to demean Assamese?
Come to surface & furnish intellectual dossiers to elevate modern days Assamese instead.
For the people like you Assamese outside Assam have no footprint & in abroad termed as backward natives.
‘Better late than never.’ Well researched analytical article.
People from Sylhet are deprived Bengalees. Sylhet has produced more intellecctuals when compared to other parts of Bengal.
Why Sylhet could not produce a tall leader to counter a chauvinist like Gopinath Bordoloi at all levels?
Shouldn’t we have an introspection?
Like to read such type of articles.
Early April/May 1947, my maternal grandfather was there in Sylhet. My mom was a child then. One fine evening my grandfather came from duty. He was a police officer. He informed about the referendum and asked their opinion. The referendum was held in a fair and unbiased manner by the British. My grandfather’s family remained in India, well settled, no discrimination.
I am very happy that some one has written about it. I always felt we are homeless, freedom of india came by uprooting us. And no body bothered . But we too didn’t have any true leaders to stand for and suffering goes on.
Whenever some one ask me which state you belong i really don’t know what to answer so I always say , i have no state, whole india is mine.
Dear Ms Bhattacherjee,
I congratulate you for writing this timely article. In fact you have strengthened my determination to finish the novel I have been writing since two years following my travel to Sylhet – my ancestor’s homeland three years ago.
I shall be glad if you share relevant articles with me ( drdebashisdeb@gmail.com). I am a practising surgeon and live in Kolkata and a published author of 2 novels and a short story collection.
Hope to read your mail soon.
It’s an extremely sad that being an intellectual how can you try to legitimise a false fabricated statement like.
It’s an extremely sad that being an intellectual how can you try to legitimise a false fabricated statement like:
Hindu Bengalis were systematically targeted throughout Brahmaputra valley, and several lost their lives, livelihoods and property. The language riots, which started in the 1960s, and the Assam movement from 1979-1985, often led to state-supported pogroms in which Hindu Bengalis were killed, forced to flee from medical and engineering colleges and even compelled to leave their jobs for fear of their lives.
This is completely false, fabricated, outrageous statement. You are definitely trying to encourage Assamese-Bengali enmity.
I am a senior citizen from erstwhile Goalpara district of Assam. I know the facts. We happily mix together and these I can proudly say. Please don’t try to poke your subverted mentality in our beloved Assam.
You said Bengali community is forced to leave Assam. Go to the Maligaon-Pandu area in Guwahayi, go to Dhubri, Goalpara , Barpeta, Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Silchar, Hailakandi, Karimganj and many more towns.
Either you are ignorant or you are trying to fan linguistic enmity particularly in Asssam and all over India in general.
Dear Mr Raja,
Your opinion reminded me the folklore; the ostrich hiding its head in the sand!
I grew up in Maligaon -Pandu area, studied medicine in Dibrugarh, worked as a medical officer in Kamrup district. So, I believe you will trust my experience. You haven`t written your surname, so it`s difficult to understand which community you belong to, but I, like Malini am a Bengali Hindu, but for all practical purpose I am an Indian first.
In every step of my life till I was in Assam, I was reminded that I wasn`t an Assamese – ‘thalua’ – and hence always a second choice. This is why after completion of my higher studies from AIIMS, New Delhi, I didn`t go back to Assam because I had a choice then to decide where I`d live for the rest of my life without being looked down. I came to Calcutta 22 years ago. Yes, there are still many Bengalis in Assam; my parents and brother still live there, and there are hundreds of school and college friends who live there, but they stayed back not by choice but by compulsion – they just didn`t have a choice to move out. Of course Cachar and Karimganj is a different story altogether because Barak valley though in Assam represent an inland of preserved Bengali culture.
So, I`d like to inform you that either you are taking an “ostrich view'” or you don`t know the reality.
Why you people want to defame Assamese people?. Are you being paid by somebody to diminish Assamese people from the face of the world?.Let me remind you that the more you try to defame Assam the more it gets easier for Assamese to gain their ultimate goal
Stop propaganda about Assam and do urgent work to help west Bengal to get on the development road.Because your sonar bangla is no longer a wealthy state,and its because of people like you,those who speaks but never work .
Just making false historical narration your dead Slytheti Bengali Hindu ancestors won’t be washed off from their sins. Stop blaming Assamese people and Bengali muslims. Your Bengali Hindu ancestors themselves have put this problem on themselves.
If Bengali Hindus were in majority in Slythet why did they gave vote to Muslim league to form its first government in colonial Assam after division of Assam from Bengal. They wanted Assam to become Bengali State but Muslim league later changed their mind of taking Assam into Bangladesh so butthurt Bengali Hindus now blame them for what they suffered.
It’s an extremely sad that being an intellectual how can you try to legitimise a false fabricated statement like: “Hindu Bengalis were systematically targeted throughout Brahmaputra valley, and several lost their lives, livelihoods and property. The language riots, which started in the 1960s, and the Assam movement from 1979-1985, often led to state-supported pogroms in which Hindu Bengalis were killed, forced to flee from medical and engineering colleges and even compelled to leave their jobs for fear of their lives.”
This is completely outrageous statement. You are definitely trying to encourage Assamese-Bengali enmity. I am from erstwhile Goalpara district of Assam. I know the facts. We happily mix with the peaceful Assamese community, and these I can proudly say. Please don’t try to poke your subverted mentality in our beloved Assam.
Dear Raj,
You may be one of the fortunate few who have not suffered the wrath of the antibengali sentiments of the general Assamese people. But I and my family members have – brutally beaten, houses burnt, women threatened.
Being a Sylheti, I know how our families went through the tough times. Sylheti are known for their education and knowledge and thus been able to just survive. Being in Assam we never could really understand our identity as it was always unwelcoming. Finally someone wrote about it. This article is a gratitude to my forefathers.
Thanks madam for writing this article.
Grateful to you for this article which reflects the true plight of our Sylheti Hindus who are now getting marginalised also in Barak Valley districts of Assam..Had the referendum been held in a fair and unbiased manner the result could have been different.It would have also benefited Bengali Hindus of other East Bengal districts who also face lot of humiliation in North East India.I also attribute this to the failure of then Sylheti Hindu leadership to stall the refurendum.
Listen up, you Bongali shit heads, as long as the Assamese elite is alive, Assam will ALWAYS BE FOR THE ASSAMESE. GO BACK TO YOUR SWAMPY MARSHLANDS OF BANGLADESH. WE BUILT ASSAM AND THE NORTH EAST.. Our mighty race entered the B-Valley in the 1200 AD and brough in technological advancements from China to this shit stained region while your primitive race were still being imported/exported as Mughal Slaves. So all you Hindu & Muslim Bangladeshis can GTFO of Assam. I will make sure to it!
Take it easy bro.This is post Modernist time plz dont bring your medieval ignorance and hate.Learn to coexist and be progressive.
Take it easy.Learn to coexist.Dont live with medieval mind set of ignorance and hate
Sir your language stark full of hatred and I’ll information first and formost the pribhumi of assam is tribals and second Bengalis are indigenous of assam,get it wiki-indo-aryan migration of assam.tai-ahoms crack a deal with Mughals and even gave their daughter.these are dark histories also,how British and burmans crushed you google it.and also Assamese are not elite,it is bihari,north indians and Punjabis still dominating it.your hatred towards Bengalis is unjustified,many Bengalis whether Hindus and muslims contributed for assam.also,many Assamese Bengalis are martyrs for Assam agitation for eg amalendu das.brother you must follow the path of pandit xankardev not ulfa.ulfa claims to be khilongia but killed innoncent people.
Bengali and indigenous, ha ha
True there is an ongoing genocide against Bangali hindus which everyone remains a silent spectator???.. That is the reason i hate congress.. They kept us stateless and our life has no value for them??
Dear Ms. Bhattacharjee,
Kudos to you for writing this article and highlighting the plight of Bengali Hindus living in North Eastern part of India. It’s the responsibility of each and every Indian- that the voices of Bengali Hindus living in NE India be heard and justice be delivered .
My sincere gratitude to Mr. Shekhar Gupta for publishing this artcile.
It was east pakistan