AGARTALA, Nov 24 (TIWN): Voicing against illegal Bangladeshi's intrusion in Northeast state Tripura, Tripura's native party INPT has announced to go in massive protest on December 10 by blocking National Highway as well as Railway.

Through press conferences both INPT and IPFT (Tipraha) has announced this on Saturday. 3 locations have been announced as Hejamara, Ambasa, Baramura and INPT said that anywhere the blockade may be held. 

Addressing media, INPT leaders said, "If the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, is passed in Parliament, the indigenous people in Tripura and other northeastern states would be affected”. 

With The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, the government plans to change the definition of illegal migrants. The Bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha on July 15, 2016, seeks to amend the Citizenship Act, 1955 to provide citizenship to illegal migrants, from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, who are of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian extraction. However, the Act doesn’t have a provision for Muslim sects like Shias and Ahmediyas who also face persecution in Pakistan.

The Bill also seeks to reduce the requirement of 11 years of continuous stay in the country to six years to obtain citizenship by naturalisation.