Citizenship Act: Amit Shah meets Tripura leaders as protests continue; ‘no retreat’, responds one

Union Home Minister Amit Shah met delegations of the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura – the Bharatiya Janata Party’s ally in Tripura – and an outfit called Joint Movement Against CAB on Thursday night to discuss their concerns about the amended Citizenship Act as protests escalated in various parts of the North East.
Two people were killed in Assam and 21 were injured as demands to withdraw the changes to the 1955 law were raised.
The widespread fear in the North East is that populations defined as indigenous to the region will be culturally and physically overrun by migrants as a result of these changes.
“Modi government will try to solve their issues in a positive way,” Shah tweeted. “I thank them for their appeal to maintain peace and call off the strike.”
The home minister also met Kirit Pradyot Deb Barman, the head of the Tripura royal family, and Tripura People’s Front President Patal Kanya Jamatia.