The North East Students’ Organisation (NESO) today filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the Rules of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 with an appeal to the court to issue a stay on implementation of the citizenship law.
The CAA rules were notified by the Union government on March 11.
The petition by NESO and 236 other pleas on the same matter will be heard by the Supreme Court tomorrow. The petitions have been pending since 2019.
NESO filed the petition in the Supreme Count on December 19, 2019 challenging the validity of CAA.
According to NESO chairman Samuel B. Jyrwa, even though CAA has exempted the ILP covered states which include 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, but the rest of the districts of Assam are not exempted posing a serious threat to the entire North East states.
“So, to protect the microscopic indigenous communities of the North East which are already threatened by unabated influx of illegal migrants from Bangladesh, it is imperative that the CAA, 2019 should not be made applicable as it will worsen the already precarious situation of the North East region,” Jyrwa said in a statement.
