GUWAHATI, March 13 -- The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and its associated regulations, as published by the ministry of home affairs (MHA), are unlikely to provide any advantages to Bengali Hindus or linguistic minority groups residing in Assam.

Instead, CAA risks damaging the longstanding camaraderie between Assamese and Bengalis, according to Shantanu Mukherjee, a linguistic minority leader and the working president of the Bharatiya Gana Parishad (BGP), in an exclusive interview with Northeast Now on Wednesday (March 13).

"The Parliament passed the CAA in December 2019. For the past four years, it has been in limbo, with no rules framed for various reasons such as the COVID-19 pandemic. However, just days before the Lok Sabha electi...