Assam was part of Myanmar, Kapil Sibal claimed in Supreme Court; What did Himanta Sarkar say?
Regarding the Citizenship Act 1955, the Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Central Government to provide data of immigrants coming illegally to Assam and other north-eastern states after 1971. These days there is a lot of debate going on in Assam regarding Section 6A of this Act. On Tuesday, a bench of CJI DY Chandrachud and four other judges was hearing the case. Many petitioners had challenged Section 6A of the Citizenship Act 1955 in the Supreme Court. Senior lawyer Kapil Sibal made a big claim about Assam and said that it used to be a part of Myanmar. Assam government has also reacted to Sibal’s claim. Government spokesperson Piyush Hazarika has said that Assam was a part of India since the Mahabharata period.
Section 6A gives certain foreign immigrants the right to apply for citizenship. These are the migrants who came to Assam between 1966 and 1971. During the hearing of the case, senior lawyer Kapil Sibal presented his arguments. Talking about history, he said that identifying those people is a very difficult task. He said that Assam was a part of Myanmar during British rule and later it was connected to East Bengal after partition. In this way, Bengali population also lives in Assam.
He said, even in history, there has been movement of people into Assam and it cannot be mapped separately. If you look at the history of Assam, you will find that it is very difficult to trace the people who came to Assam. He said, if we talk before 1824, Assam was a part of Myanmar. After this, when the British people won, it was handed over to the British under the treaty agreement. You can imagine what kind of demonstration the people there could have demonstrated against the British Empire at that time. Piyush Hazarika said, it has never been in the history of Assam that it has been a part of Myanmar. It was an integral part of Bharavarsha since Mahabharata and even before that.
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Sibal said, overall this controversy has only one root that those who are opposing Section 6A saying that it is legalizing infiltrators coming from Bangladesh, they want to play with the demography and culture of the state. . The constitutional bench headed by CJI Chandrachud comprised Justices AS Bopanna, MM Sundaresh, JB Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Mishra.
