The BJP-government in Assam has claimed that last week's violent protests in Guwahati were a conspiracy not by the groups who had originally planned demonstrations against the Citizenship(Amendment) Act but a nexus of "urban-Naxals", a-few-people from the Congress and the lesser known Popular Front of India or the PFI, an Islamic group having strong support-base in Southern-India but a new entrant in the north-eastern-state.