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Assam : the Accord, the Discord by Mahanta, Prafulla Kumar;Pisharoty, Sangeeta Barooah is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Assam Accord, which sought to end a six-year-long agitation against illegal immigrants in Assam, was signed between members of the All Assam Students Union (AASU), and state and central governments just a few hours before Rajiv Gandhi was to deliver the Independence Day address in 1985. Immediately afterwards, the student leaders were catapulted from their hostel rooms into the corridors of power. Their party, the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), was voted to power the same year, with Prafulla Kumar Mahanta becoming the youngest ever chief minister of an Indian state. Key clauses of the Assam Accord remained unimplemented during Mahanta's often controversial tenures (1985-1990, 1996-2001), and through three terms of Congress rule, which ended with the BJP's victory in the state in 2016. Central to the Accord was deportation of those who could not prove their roots in India prior to 24 March 1971. In 2015, the process of updating the National Register of Citizens (NRC) based on the 1971 cut-off of the Accord began. The first list was released in December 2017, and did not include 14 million names. Assam: The Accord, The Discord looks at the making of the Assam Accord and its long shad

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Author

Mahanta, Prafulla Kumar;Pisharoty, Sangeeta Barooah

Publisher

Penguin Random House India Private Limited

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9789353056223

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Government & Politics