NESO petitions SC against CM
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, March 18 2024:
Northeast Students' Organisation (NESO) filed a petition in the Supreme Court of India challenging the rules of Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 with a submission to issue stay order on its implementation.
In a release, NESO chairman Samuel Jyrwa stated that though CAA 2019 has exempted the ILP covered states including Mizoram, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur and also the Sixth Scheduled covered areas which include 98 per cent of Meghalaya, 70 per cent of Tripura and eight districts of Assam, the 27 districts of Assam are not exempted, which poses a serious threat to the entire Northeastern states, which will be adversely affected in the near future.
"So to protect the microscopic indigenous communities of NE who are already affected by unabated influx of illegal migrants from Bangladesh," it is imperative that the CAA, 2019 should not be made applicable as it will only worsen the already precarious situation of the North-Eastern region," Jyrwa said.
Earlier, NESO had filed a petition in the Supreme Court on December 19, 2019, against the CAA, 2019, he recalled.