Adding to the troubles of the central government, one by one, people who were invited to be part of the high powered committee, constituted by the home ministry on implementing Clause 6 of the Assam Accord, have been pulling out. The latest one to withdraw is MP Bezbarauah, the chairman of the committee.
The Clause 6 of the 1985 Assam Accord looks at giving constitutional safeguards to indigenous Assamese people against alleged illegal migrants from Bangladesh.
Mr Bezbarauah, a former bureaucrat, wrote to the ministry that most of the public representatives in the committee have decided to pull out after the Centre passed the controversial citizenship amendment bill in Lok Sabha. And since the bill was passed, there has been a series of protests in Assam. Mr Bezbaruah said that he supports the public opinion and hence cannot be part of the committee.