Protests broke out in several places in Assam, with agitators stripping themselves in public in Tinsukia, over Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's comment, who said that if the Citizenship Bill is not passed, "we will be surrendering to Jinnah's policy".

The minister on Sunday had also said that people are commenting on the bill in a "reactionary way" and intellectuals are trying to build a "wrong narrative", but clarified that he was not pointing to any community.