GUWAHATI, March 12 -- Opposition to the implementation of the citizenship amendment act (CAA) ignited protests across Assam on Tuesday (March 12), marked by the burning of effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, home minister Amit Shah, and copies of the law.

The Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) set ablaze effigies of the Prime Minister and the home minister in Lakhimpur, while Congress members also incinerated copies of the law in various parts of the district to express their discontent with the CAA.

Leader of the opposition in the Assam assembly, Debabrata Saikia, led Congress workers in a protest outside the party's state headquarters, Rajiv Bhawan in Guwahati, where they burnt copies of the Act.

Similarly, the CPI-...