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The Naga Students' Federation (NSF) connected Thursday (December 11, 2025) observed 'North East Black Day' successful Kohima, protesting the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
Member organisations of the North East Students' Organisation (NESO) held demonstrations crossed each States successful the portion to people the time the Act was passed successful Parliament successful 2019.
NSF wide caput Kenilo Kent said the observance of the 'black day' crossed the portion symbolised a corporate basal of resistance.
"Today, we basal unneurotic successful corporate defiance on with the remainder of the radical of the Northeast," helium said.
Mr. Kent alleged that the instrumentality is discriminatory successful quality and a nonstop menace to the indigenous radical of the Northeast.
"Our homeland is not conscionable a carnal space, it is the cradle of our identity, civilization and history," helium said, adding that the CAA posed an existential menace to indigenous rights.
NESO caput wide Mutsikhoyo Yhobu said the students' bodies had opposed the instrumentality since its inception.
"Today, the full Northeast is observing this achromatic time against the imposition of the Citizenship Amendment Act," helium said.
He reiterated that NESO had consistently demanded that the Act not beryllium implemented successful the Northeast, pointing retired that though ILP-covered states were exempted, the portion arsenic a full remained vulnerable.
Mr. Yhobu said NESO, on with its subordinate bodies, was compelled to observe the 'black day' to nonstop a connection to the Centre that "we don’t privation this Citizenship Amendment Act".
All Arunachal Pradesh Students' Union (AAPSU) vice-president (protocol) Nabam Gandhi claimed the instrumentality was "socially and economically damaging for the region".
"Before implementing immoderate Act, determination indispensable beryllium a survey of its societal and economical impact," helium said, noting that the CAA failed to see the unsocial demographic vulnerability of Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and different tribal-dominated states.
He argued that the ILP exemption offered by the Centre was thing much than "a chocolate" to placate indigenous communities.
"This ILP tin beryllium lifted anytime," helium warned, stressing that unrestricted colony of migrants could erode tribal cultures, customs and earthy resources.
Mr. Yhobu led the symbolic burning of CAA documents, declaring it an enactment of nationalist dissent against the implementation of the instrumentality successful the Northeast.
