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What Is Article 371 of the Indian Constitution? — Special Provisions for Northeast States, Explained Plainly What Is Article 371 of the Indian Constitution? — Special Provisions for Northeast States, Explained Plainly By BUGLE  |  June 2026  |  Last updated: June 2026  |  13 min read Why this is in the news in 2026: After the BJP government's 2019 abrogation of Article 370 — which had given special status to Jammu and Kashmir — communities in Northeast India began asking whether Article 371, which gives special protections to their states, could be similarly removed. In the Supreme Court, Congress leader Manish Tewari raised this concern explicitly during Article 370 hearings. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the Supreme Court on behalf of the government that it has "no plans" to amend Article 371. Meanwhile, the government has considered extending Article 371-like protections to Ladakh — the Union Territory that lost its special sta...

The Assam Accord 1985 — What It Promised, What It Delivered, and How It Led to the NRC The Assam Accord 1985 — What It Promised, What It Delivered, and How It Led to the NRC By BUGLE  |  June 2026  |  Last updated: June 2026  |  13 min read The short answer: The Assam Accord was signed on August 15, 1985 between the Government of India and the leaders of the All Assam Students' Union (AASU) to end a six-year anti-foreigner agitation. It promised to identify and deport illegal migrants who entered Assam after March 24, 1971, protect Assamese cultural identity, and update the National Register of Citizens. Forty years later, the detection and deportation of post-1971 migrants has barely happened, the NRC update it mandated excluded 1.9 million people but sent almost none back to Bangladesh, and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) of 2019 — which offers citizenship to non-Muslim migrants from Bangladesh — is widely seen in Assam as a direct...