Shillong, Dec 11: Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) observed black day on Monday in protest against the implementation of Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019 in the North East.
The gesture was following a call by NESO to observe the black day in all seven NE states as it was on December 11, 2019 that the toCAA was passed by the Centre.
The KSU displayed black flags and black banners as a part of the protest.
In the city, the KSU activists put up black flags and anti-CAA black banners at Khyndailad and other locations.
Many of them read, “11.12.2019 – when CAB turns into CAA, a black day for the indigenous people of NE, a bright day for illegal immigrants”, “Detect, delete & deport all illegal immigrant coming after 1971 instead of providing them safe sanctuary” and “North East is not a dumping ground of illegal immigrants”.
KSU president Lambokstarwell Marngar said the Centre’s decision to exempt only the Sixth Schedule area of Meghalaya from the purview of the CAA is just a tactic to fool the indigenous people.
“However, the stand of the NESO is that the CAA should not be implemented in the entire NE region including Meghalaya,” he asserted.
The CAA is a mechanism to flood the NE region with influx of illegal immigrants, Marngar said.
“We don’t need CAA, we need effective mechanisms to check the unabated influx of illegal immigrants into the region”, he added.
NESO chairman Samuel B Jyrwa had said recently that on December 11, 2019, despite the relentless opposition of the indigenous people of the North East against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019, the Government of India did not pay heed and it finally through the Rajya Sabha passed the draconian law which is known as Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019.
