By Bhupen Goswami (PNI)

Guwahati : The BJP-led Tripura government barred a delegation of North East Students’ Organization (NESO) on Friday from meeting its members, who were injured in a police firing during Tuesday’s bandh against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016. NESO has observed Black Day in Tripura across the North East region on today to protest against Tripura government’s move to fire on peaceful protesters. North East Students’ Organization Says there was “Emergency-Like Situation” in TripuraDenied permission to meet some of the persons injured in the police firing during the Tuesday (January 8) North East shutdown against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in Tripura, a delegation of the North East Students’ Organization (NESO) today alleged that there was an “Emergency-like situation” in Tripura and the state machinery was forcefully suppressing the indigenous people’s protest against the Bill. The students’ body alleged that once the Bill becomes an Act allowing citizenship to illegal migrants, the indigenous population of the entire North East region would be treated as second-class citizens