39 officials saidtea garden workers stopped work in lakhimpur and charaideo districts and also at numaligarh in golaghat district and some areas in tinsukia districtall educational institutions across the state are closedfive columns of the army have been deployed in different parts of the state and are conducting flag marches in guwahati tinsukia jorhat and dibrugarh the officials saidseveral flights and trains to and from assam have also been cancelledhundreds of passengers remained stranded at the guwahati airport due to the curfew from students to working professionals and old men to young women people were seen squatting inside and outside the lokpriya gopinath bordoloi international airport at borjhar area about 30 km from the main citythe civil aviation ministry said movement of passengers at the dibrugarh airport was also disrupted due to blockage of road transportationthe stranded passengers have been evacuated in a phased manner the ministry said in a series of tweetsthe citizenship amendment bill seeks to provide indian citizenship to nonmuslim refugees coming from pakistan bangladesh and afghanistan after facing religious persecution therethe protesters said if the bill becomes a law then it will endanger the indigenous population of the state as people crossing over from bangladesh will get permanent indian citizenship leading to a change in the demography of the regionwatch cab protests in the northeast government cancels some flights to assam