The Assam Accord, Which Sought To End A Sixyearlong Agitation Against Illegal Immigrants in Assam, Was Signed Between Members of The All Assam Students Union Aasu, and State and Central Governments Just A Few Hours Before Rajiv Gandhi Was To Deliver The independence Day Address in 1985. Immediately Afterwards, The Student Leaders Were Catapulted From Their Hostel Rooms into The Corridors of Power. Their Party, The Asom Gana Parishad Agp, Was Voted To Power The Same Year, With Prafulla Kumar Mahanta Becoming The Youngest Ever Chief Minister of an Indian State. Key Clauses of The Assam Accord Remained Unimplemented During Mahantas often Controversial Tenures 19851990, 19962001, and Through Three Terms of Congress Rule, Which Ended With The Bjps Victory in The State in 2016. Central To The Accord Was Deportation of Those Who Could Not Prove Their Roots in India Prior To 24 March 1971. in 2015, The Process of Updating The National Register of Citizens Nrc Based On The 1971 Cutoff of The Accord Began. The First List Was Released in December 2017, and Did Not include 14 Million Names. Assam The Accord, The Discord Looks At The Making of The Assam Accord and Its Long Shadow On The State, Through Political Gamesmanship Between Principle Players, Periods of Ulfa and Bodo Militancies, and Rightwing Propaganda That Has Split The State Along Communal Lines. Product Description about The Author sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty is A Delhibased Journalist Who Covers The Northeast for The News Website The Wire. Born in Golaghat, Assam, She Graduated From The Gauhati University in 1995. She Began Her Journey in Journalism in 1996 With The United News of India Uni, Thus Breaking The Glass Ceiling To Become The First Woman From The Northeast To Be Employed As A Journalist in Its New Delhi office. Her Reportage On The Northeast Began in The Hindu After She Won The inclusive Media Fellowship of The Centre for Development Studies Csds in 2011 To Write A Series On The Loss of Livelihood Due To annual Erosion in Assams Majuli island, Asias Largest Riverine island, in The Brahmaputra River. a Rare Chance To Utilise The Digital Space for News About The Northeast From A New Delhi Newsroom Led Her To Join Wire. in 2017, She Received The Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award for Feature Writing. her English Translation of Sahitya Akademi Award Winning Assamese Writer Rita Chowdhurys Novel Mayabritta is Slated for Publication in 2020.