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Assam's Political Battle: The Survival of Regionalism

As Assam approaches elections, regionalism is a pivotal issue with concerns over safeguarding Assamese identity. National ...
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As AGP returns to the BJP fold, is the contentious Citizenship Bill now history?

Former Assam Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta (third from right) with Asom Gana Parishad workers during a protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in Guwahati on February 8. | PTI Less ...
The New Indian Express

Replacing Assamese as mother tongue will help us know the number of foreigners: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma

Guwahati: A minority student leader in Assam stirred a hornet’s nest with remarks that Bengal-origin Muslims would list Bengali, and not Assamese, as their mother tongue in public documents. Chief ...
Hindustan Times

Assamese singer of BJP’s 2016 campaign song offers to return money to protest Citizenship Bill

Amidst protests in Assam over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, popular Assamese singer Zubeen Garg has offered to return the remuneration he received for singing the BJP’s official campaign song for ...
Indiatimes

‘Assamese people will be in minority if Congress, AIUDF win’

Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) president Atul Bora on Sunday claimed that if the Congress-AIUDF combine comes to power in the state, the Assamese population “will become a minority in its own land”. AGP ...