Note: Actress Seema Biswas' name has been wrongly written as Seema Guha. Seema Biswas joined singers, Papon and Joi Barua, among others in Mumbai on December 16 for a protest of Assamese fraternity against the Act. The opposition to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act has been vociferous in Assam.
It has reminded many of the tumultuous agitations against undocumented foreigners in the state between 1979 and 1985. Along with the masses, the artiste fraternity of Assam was at the forefront of that agitation, led by students. Among others, there was Bhupen Hazarika composing songs about the times when not advising the students. This time too, the artiste community of the state is not found to be lacking in providing their support to the public protest against the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act. The Act would violate the principal clause of the Assam Accord – the exclusive citizenship cut-off date for the State, March 24, 1971.
That Accord had brought to an end the six-year-long anti-foreigner agitation.
While popular singer and youth icon Zubeen Garg has been leading the students from the front, Padma Shri awarded filmmaker from Assam, Jahnu Barua, who withdrew his film from a government-sponsored event in protest. Artistes like Ravi Sharma and Jatin Bora, members of the ruling BJP, walked out of the party and joined the protests. Mumbai based singers, Papon and Joi Barua, actress Seema Guha, Jahnu Barua among others, led a protest of the Assamese fraternity in the city against the Act. On December 16, the state’s artistes got together to organise a protest rally in Guwahati’s Chandmari area where they addressed an estimated crowd of over fifty thousand people.
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