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So after few months of a near- congenial ambience prevailing  across Assam since the publication of the final National Register of Citizens on 31^st August this year excluding a little over 19 lakh people , the air of the agitation-weary State  yet again decidedly  gets heavy and tension high following lots of excitement stemming from the incumbent BJP government’s  recent announcement that it will bring in and pass  the proposed Citizenship(Amendment) Bill (CAB), 2019  both  in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha during the current session of parliament which begins from November 18 last. That the ruling party has already made up its mind to convert the CAB into a law is clearly discernable during the recent visit of Union Home Minister Amit Shah to Guwahati where he expressed the party’s commitment to go ahead with it. The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill is among the 27 Bills the ruling BJP or NDA government has approved for introduction and passage in the Lok Sabha.  Although the Bill has not clarified about what will be a fresh cut-off year, yet from the media reports it seems that the new cut-off year can be 1951 instead of the existing cut-off date of midnight of March 24, 1971 set as per the historic Assam Accord, 1985, for updating the already-completed process of the NRC.