Situation peaceful in Barak Valley of South Assam

By S M Last updated Dec 13, 2019

Guwahati: Security personnel patrol a street during curfew a day after unrest against the Citizenship Amendment Bill, at GS Road in Guwahati, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019. Guwahati, the epicentre of anti-CAB protests, was placed under indefinite curfew last night while the Army was called in at four places and Assam Rifles personnel were deployed in Tripura on Wednesday as the two northeastern states plunged into chaos over the hugely emotive Citizenship (Amendment) Bill or CAB. (PTI Photo) (PTI12_12_2019_000075B)

The situation is peaceful in Barak Valley of South Assam. AIR correspondent reports that the Barak valley have maintained its fame as Island of Peace. CAB was a longstanding demand in the valley that has become reality now.

Valley has a mixed reaction on it. Law and Order situation is normal here. Mobile internet and bulk SMS are banned as precautionary measure.

In different phases since 1951, a number of refugees from Bangaladesh got settled in three districts of this valley.

Many of them got permanent settlement but temporary exercises like NRC was creating a kind of fear among them.

Now, enactment of this law have offered a confidence to them. Perhaps, this is why some newspapers in the valley have termed this law as moment of immunity from the curse of partition.