As Centre, state govt blunder through NRC in Assam, lessons from 1951 exercise could proffer helpful pointers
6 years, 8 months ago

As Centre, state govt blunder through NRC in Assam, lessons from 1951 exercise could proffer helpful pointers

Firstpost  

The aim and scope of NRC in 2018 is the same as it was in 1951: To purge illegal immigration. There could be a debate on legacy data and its accuracy, but politics overshadowing the entire exercise may not further the State’s interest New Delhi: On the eve of first census and National Register of Citizens in 1951, the message from the then Union home minister C Rajagopalachari to the officers was simple: “We need to prepare a record of basic facts relating to the life and livelihood of all citizens and families in our Republic.” Similar sentiments were echoed in the communication from BR Medhi, then chief minister of Assam, who told 18,850 officers involved in the complex task in the state that these records will help the government formulate policies to overcome the problems of poverty, illiteracy and backwardness. As per the Jawaharlal Nehru government’s estimate in 1951, around 5 Lakh refugees had entered Assam, but the number actually recorded in the first NRC, which is part of legacy data now, was only 274,000. But the task was much easier for Nehru’s government; 67 years have turned the DNA of politics around, and despite statements made by the state and central governments regarding the possibility of amendments to legacy data, political parties still continue to add fuel to the fire. The home ministry officer said 1951 legacy data is bound to have some issues as it was purely a statistical exercise.

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Over 30,000 Illegal Foreigners Deported Till 31 August Based on Assam Accord
2 years, 6 months ago

Over 30,000 Illegal Foreigners Deported Till 31 August Based on Assam Accord

The Quint  

According to the Assam Accord signed on 15 August 1985, anyone entering the state on or after 25 March 1971 will be deemed a foreigner and will be deported from the state. Clause 6 of the Assam Accord guarantees "Constitutional, legislative and administrative safeguards, as may be appropriate, shall be provided to protect, preserve and promote the cultural, social, linguistic …

The confusion over the status of the Assam NRC
2 years, 10 months ago

The confusion over the status of the Assam NRC

The Hindu  

The story so far: A member of one of Assam’s functional 100 Foreigners’ Tribunals had on May 10 written to Hitesh Dev Sarma, the State Coordinator of the National Register of Citizens, asking him to stop interfering in the lawful functioning of the tribunals. This letter was in response to Mr. Sarma’s April 18 letter to all the FT members …

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma calls for fresh NRC
3 years ago

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma calls for fresh NRC

India TV News  

Highlights NRC is a register containing names of Indian citizens, which was prepared for the only time in 1951 It is being updated for Assam as of now to weed out illegal immigrants The draft NRC earlier had included the names of 2.9 crore people out of the total 3.29 crore Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said …

Assam CM wants fresh NRC
3 years ago

Assam CM wants fresh NRC

The Hindu  

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said the updating of the National Register of Citizens in the State should be done afresh. The updated list of citizens published in August 2019 had excluded 19.06 lakh people out of 3.3 crore applicants. The Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in Assam had found fault with the updated NRC draft, alleging that …

NRC in limbo, Assam govt. appears to have gone soft on ‘Bangladeshi’ issue
3 years, 6 months ago

NRC in limbo, Assam govt. appears to have gone soft on ‘Bangladeshi’ issue

The Hindu  

The long pause in the exercise to update the National Register of Citizens and a series of decisions have indicated that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Assam government may have gone soft on the ‘Bangladeshi’ issue. Detention centres renamed ‘transit camps’ Apart from going slow on the NRC, the government showed signs of softening its stand on the Bangladeshi issue by …

Assam Assembly Elections 2021 | Waiver of farmer debts, identification of immigrants in Congress manifesto
4 years ago

Assam Assembly Elections 2021 | Waiver of farmer debts, identification of immigrants in Congress manifesto

The Hindu  

Waiving off the debts of farmers and beginning the process of identification of illegal immigrants topped the list of promises in the Congress manifesto that former party president Rahul Gandhi released in Guwahati on Saturday. The Congress pledged to take steps to solve the problem of illegal immigrants based on the March 25, 1971 cut-off date as prescribed in the …

How anti-CAA protests distort the truth
5 years, 1 month ago

How anti-CAA protests distort the truth

New Indian Express  

Articles 5-11 of the Constitution clearly lay down the criteria for citizenship. Several amendments have refined the criteria, notably the Citizenship Act of 2003 that defined an illegal immigrant and disallowed citizenship to their progeny. The recent NRC update of 2019 was sanctioned by the Supreme Court.The NRC is a constitutionally mandated decree. Opposing it means opposing the Constitution and …

MHA-appointed panel's recommendation of 1951 as cut-off date to define Assam 'indigenous' meets resistance from minority groups
5 years, 1 month ago

MHA-appointed panel's recommendation of 1951 as cut-off date to define Assam 'indigenous' meets resistance from minority groups

Firstpost  

The Sharma Committee, which has members of the All Assam Students Union, one of the signatory bodies of the Assam Accord, and is headed by Justice Biplab Kumar Sharma, will submit its recommendations on Clause 6 of the Assam Accord on Tuesday as the debate over who is ‘Assamese’ continues. The Amid the raging protests over the contentious citizenship Act …

Assam NRC exercise and citizenship determination drive hold warning to other states of the shape of things to come
5 years, 2 months ago

Assam NRC exercise and citizenship determination drive hold warning to other states of the shape of things to come

Firstpost  

As the nationwide protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, National Population Register and National Register of Citizens rage on in India, the streets are abounding with speculations about what the country’s future is going to look like. It was only last year November when former Chief Justice of India and one of the two Supreme Court judges that passed the …

Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens: The Evils That Aren't - News18
5 years, 3 months ago

Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens: The Evils That Aren't - News18

News 18  

The passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act in both Houses of Parliament has thrown up protests — violent and peaceful — as well as criticisms ranging from unconstitutionality of the CAA to exclusion of certain other refugees to the criminal designs of the CAA-NRC combination. First, it isn’t just Hindus but five other minority religions from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh …

Why the nationwide NRC proposed by Amit Shah is being criticised
5 years, 4 months ago

Why the nationwide NRC proposed by Amit Shah is being criticised

India Today  

On November 20, Union home minister Amit Shah said in Parliament that the Nation Register of Citizens would be prepared for every state in the country. Immediately after Shah's statement in Parliament, Assam finance minister and the home minister's trusted lieutenant Himanta Biswa Sarma addressed a press conference in Assam and said that the state government had decided to reject …

Country-wide NRC will only put people through hardship: Owaisi
5 years, 4 months ago

Country-wide NRC will only put people through hardship: Owaisi

India Today  

AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday hit out at the NDA governments plan to conduct NRC across the country, alleging that the exercise is only going to cause hardship to people, especially minorities and "the weak". He was referring to reports over the Assam government urging the Centre to scrap the updated NRC in the state, the cost of conducting …

Scrap updated NRC, Assam government urges Centre
5 years, 4 months ago

Scrap updated NRC, Assam government urges Centre

The Hindu  

Following Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement in the Rajya Sabha that the National Register of Citizens exercise would be conducted across India and repeated in Assam, the State’s Finance Minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, said Assam had asked the Centre to reject the updated final NRC in the State. ‘It will be catastrophic’ According to human rights activist Harsh Mander, …

Govt planning NRC in Karnataka: State minister
5 years, 5 months ago

Govt planning NRC in Karnataka: State minister

Hindustan Times  

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led Karnataka government is collecting information on suspected illegal immigrants in the state, and considering preparing an Assam-like National Register of Citizens, state home minister Basavaraj Bommai said on Thursday. About 1.9 million people out of 33 million applicants were excluded in the final NRC published in Assam on August 31. Union home minister Amit Shah recently …

NRC: A sinister political scheme
5 years, 6 months ago

NRC: A sinister political scheme

The Hindu  

SATYA Prakash Agarwal, the Bharatiya Janata Party member representing the Meerut Cantonment seat in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, is a personification of aggressive assertion when he says that it is only a matter of time before all the States in the country go through the “filtering process” ordained by the National Register of Citizens and the Citizenship Amendment Bill. Our …

India’s citizenship question and the never-ending Assam imbroglio
5 years, 6 months ago

India’s citizenship question and the never-ending Assam imbroglio

Al Jazeera  

The campaign to update the National Register of Citizens in Assam has upset everyone, including its proponents. The controversy, trauma and trouble over the National Register of Citizens in India’s northeast state of Assam does not seem to go away. The entire thrust of a 40-year on-again, off-again movement against “illegal migrants” from Bangladesh in Assam state was based on …

RSS spots 'errors' in Assam NRC final list, asks govt to remove those before moving forward
5 years, 6 months ago

RSS spots 'errors' in Assam NRC final list, asks govt to remove those before moving forward

India TV News  

The RSS on Monday said there are "some errors" in the final list of National Register of Citizens in Assam and the government should remove those before moving forward, but asserted that the exercise is a welcome step. Concerns were raised at the RSS' three-day annual coordination meeting with its affiliates on the first day of the meet on Saturday …

Bengal Assembly passes resolution against Assam NRC
5 years, 6 months ago

Bengal Assembly passes resolution against Assam NRC

The Quint  

Kolkata, Sep 7 The West Bengal Assembly on Friday passed a resolution opposing the National Register of Citizens in Assam and ruling out any such exercise in Bengal. She referred to the detention centres being constructed in Assam, and said: "They are coming up with a grand jail to house those excluded from the NRC final list". All India Forward …

NRC outcome: As a nation, we have failed Assam
5 years, 6 months ago

NRC outcome: As a nation, we have failed Assam

Op India  

When the draft NRC came out last year, it identified about 40 lakh suspected illegal migrants in Assam. But it may be time to look at the depressing reality in the eye and just admit: We failed Assam as a nation. From the NRC final list, it seems these people were the least proactive in getting “documents.” Possibly because they …

Final NRC list published in Assam: As Sarbananda Sonowal tries to quell panic, document draws criticism across political lines
5 years, 7 months ago

Final NRC list published in Assam: As Sarbananda Sonowal tries to quell panic, document draws criticism across political lines

Firstpost  

The final and conclusive draft of the long-awaited and contentious Assam NRC, which set out to identify bonafide Indian citizens in the state through a Supreme Court-monitored process, was published on Saturday The final and conclusive draft of the long-awaited and contentious National Register of Citizens, which set out to identify bonafide Indian citizens in Assam through a Supreme Court-monitored …

Understanding Assam NRC: What is it exactly?
5 years, 7 months ago

Understanding Assam NRC: What is it exactly?

India TV News  

The final list of Assam National Register of Citizens has been released today. According to Article 5 of the Indian constitution, “every person who has his domicile in the territory of India and— who was born in the territory of India; or either of whose parents was born in the territory of India; or who has been ordinarily resident in …

34 years after Assam pact, NRC brings little rejoice
5 years, 7 months ago

34 years after Assam pact, NRC brings little rejoice

India TV News  

The final National Register of Citizens seems to have failed to bring in the expected rejoice to the people of Assam, who were waiting for over three decades for the resolution of the vexed problem of infiltration. Expressing its unhappiness, the Assam BJP said the final NRC had excluded many genuine citizens and included many illegal foreigners. The Congress said …

Himanta Biswa Sarma, AASU seek re-verification of final Assam NRC list; Owaisi slams BJP, says 'myth' of illegal immigrants busted
5 years, 7 months ago

Himanta Biswa Sarma, AASU seek re-verification of final Assam NRC list; Owaisi slams BJP, says 'myth' of illegal immigrants busted

Firstpost  

The president of All Assam Students’ Union Dipankar Kumar Nath indicated a similar disappointment over the release of the final NRC document and avowed to approach the apex court to file appeal for “rectification of these mistakes”. As the much-awaited updated final National Register of Citizens in Assam was published on Saturday, excluding names of over 19 lakh applicants, the …

Assam NRC final list 2019 Updates: BJP should learn its lesson, myth of illegal immigrants busted, says Asaduddin Owaisi
5 years, 7 months ago

Assam NRC final list 2019 Updates: BJP should learn its lesson, myth of illegal immigrants busted, says Asaduddin Owaisi

Firstpost  

12:08 PM Whatsapp Facebook Twitter Intention was never to throw these people out, says man behind NRC petition Pradip Kumar Bhuyan, an 1958 IIT-Kharagpur graduate and now an octogenarian, was the man behind the petition that started the National Register of Citizens updation. Weighing in on the complexities of the process, Bhuyan, who helped draft the original petition seeking updation …

Assam NRC final list published: From 1947 to 2019, a timeline of state's struggle against influx of immigrants through porous border
5 years, 7 months ago

Assam NRC final list published: From 1947 to 2019, a timeline of state's struggle against influx of immigrants through porous border

Firstpost  

On the other hand, it will impel lakhs of Assam residents into a legal quagmire as they are set to be stripped off their citizenship The final list of the government’s National Register of Citizens was published on Saturday. The Centre and the Assam government had sought permission for sample re-verification to find out wrongful inclusions and exclusions of persons …

India publishes final NRC: All you need to know on citizens’ list
5 years, 7 months ago

India publishes final NRC: All you need to know on citizens’ list

Al Jazeera  

Nearly 2 million left out from the controversial citizenship list in Assam amid fears they could be rendered stateless. Authorities in the northeastern Indian state of Assam have published a citizenship list that aims to identify genuine citizens amid fears millions could be excluded. Assam, with a population of 33 million people, is in a state of high alert and …

More than 19 lakh people excluded as final Assam NRC is out
5 years, 7 months ago

More than 19 lakh people excluded as final Assam NRC is out

New Indian Express  

Assam got the updated NRC after a wait of 34 years since the Assam Accord was signed at the end of a six-year-long bloody anti-immigrants’ agitation. It was committed in the accord, signed in 1985 between the then Rajiv Gandhi government and the All Assam Students’ Union, that the NRC of 1951, unique to Assam, will be updated. In due …

NRC final list out on Aug 31; Assam on high alert
5 years, 7 months ago

NRC final list out on Aug 31; Assam on high alert

India TV News  

The Assam government has tightened security across the state ahead of the publication of National Register of Citizens on August 31. The NRC is a list of all citizens domiciled in Assam and is being updated at present to retain bonafide citizens within the state and evict illegal settlers, purportedly migrants from Bangladesh. There had been a huge backlash from …

1971 as NRC base year cannot protect Assam’s indigenous, says NGO
5 years, 7 months ago

1971 as NRC base year cannot protect Assam’s indigenous, says NGO

The Hindu  

One of the Assam-based organisations that has been pursuing cases related to the National Register of Citizens has said that the NRC cannot protect the indigenous people of the State if 1971 remains the base year for identifying foreigners. The base year of 1971 will not protect the rights of indigenous people because many migrants from erstwhile East Pakistan and …

Assam NRC on 31 August: To mitigate resentment, Sarbananda Sonowal hints at legislation to tackle wrongful inclusion
5 years, 7 months ago

Assam NRC on 31 August: To mitigate resentment, Sarbananda Sonowal hints at legislation to tackle wrongful inclusion

Firstpost  

The worst example of administrative fallacy in the NRC update process was the draft exclusion list published on 26 June by the NRC authorities excluding the people who wrongly made it to the list. Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal’s recent statement that separate legislation might be enacted to tackle the issue of wrongful inclusion in the NRC looks more like …

Assam’s NRC exercise: The registry test of citizenship
5 years, 7 months ago

Assam’s NRC exercise: The registry test of citizenship

The Hindu  

The sword did not get Ayesha 36 years ago but the judicial pen that launched the National Register of Citizens exercise just might. Ayesha is one of the six members in Ali’s family belonging to the list of 40.07 lakh people excluded from the draft NRC published on July 30, 2018. Organisations such as the All Assam Students’ Union that …

NRC in Assam: Re-verification sought by 25 lakh people
5 years, 8 months ago

NRC in Assam: Re-verification sought by 25 lakh people

India TV News  

After nearly 41 lakh people in Assam were left out of the draft National Register of Citizens, about 25 lakh people have sent a petition to the Centre for re-verification and it is under the consideration of the Union Home Ministry. The Home Ministry has laid down the modalities for Foreigners' Tribunals in Assam to deciding appeals made by people …

Home Ministry working to expand scope of NRC across India
5 years, 8 months ago

Home Ministry working to expand scope of NRC across India

India TV News  

While the finalization of the National Register of Citizens is at an advanced stage in Assam, the Home Ministry is working on modalities to implement across the country the exercise to identify illegal immigrants for deportation. The amended order empowers state governments and even district magistrates of all states and Union Territories to set up tribunals to identify a "foreigner" …

NRC: SC Asks Centre, Assam Govt To Reply To Plea By Paralysed Man, Declared Foreigner By Tribunal, HC
5 years, 8 months ago

NRC: SC Asks Centre, Assam Govt To Reply To Plea By Paralysed Man, Declared Foreigner By Tribunal, HC

Live Law  

The Supreme Court Wednesday sought a response from the Centre and the Assam government on a plea of an imprisoned paralysed man who has been declared a foreigner by a tribunal and facing eminent deportation to Bangladesh. Azizul Hoque, who is lodged in a detention centre since March 24, 2017, was declared a foreigner by a tribunal in Assam in …

What is NRC? Here is what you need to know
5 years, 9 months ago

What is NRC? Here is what you need to know

India Today  

The National Register of Citizens is a register containing names of all genuine Indian citizens. It was first prepared in 1951.The 1951 NRC list has been updated for Assam, which has had a longstanding foreigner problem, to remove out illegal migrants and save further inflow. On December 31, 2017, a part draft NRC list was released and subsequently on July …

NRC is waste paper: Gogoi
5 years, 9 months ago

NRC is waste paper: Gogoi

The Hindu  

Former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday waded into the Sarbananda Sonowal government’s “mishandling” of ex-serviceman Mohammed Sanaullah’s case to question the validity of the process to update the National Register of Citizens. “The NRC is waste paper and has become useless with lakhs of genuine citizens certain to be excluded from the final draft of the NRC to …

21 illegal immigrants deported to Bangladesh from Assam
6 years, 2 months ago

21 illegal immigrants deported to Bangladesh from Assam

Op India  

21 Bangladeshi citizens who have been living illegally in Assam have been deported back to their country by the Indian authorities on Saturday. After receiving approval from the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Bangladeshis were reportedly taken by a special bus to the Sutarkandi Integrated check post along the India- Bangladesh border in the Karimganj district in Assam. The illegal …

Only 4.5L out of 40 lakh have so far applied for inclusion in Assam NRC: Sources
6 years, 4 months ago

Only 4.5L out of 40 lakh have so far applied for inclusion in Assam NRC: Sources

Deccan Chronicle  

Guwahati: About 4.5 lakh people, out of the total 40 lakh, who were excluded in the draft National Register of Citizens, have claimed that they are Indian nationals, two months after the window opens for claims and objections in the Supreme Court-monitored exercise, sources said Sunday. Besides, less than 200 applications have been received by the authorities challenging the inclusion …

Assam NRC: Prominent students' organisation seeks updation of citizens' register in other states of North East
6 years, 5 months ago

Assam NRC: Prominent students' organisation seeks updation of citizens' register in other states of North East

Firstpost  

The NESO advisor warned that after the NRC updation process began in Assam, some illegal migrants shifted their base to other states of the North East. The North East Students Organisation, enthused by some Bharatiya Janata Party leaders’ promises to update the National Register of Citizens across the country if the party is voted to power in 2019, has demanded …

40 lakh left out of Assam NRC get another shot at citizenship
6 years, 6 months ago

40 lakh left out of Assam NRC get another shot at citizenship

India Today  

The process of filing of claims and objections for 40 lakh people, who were left out in the final draft of the National Register of Citizens has started from today. Around 2,500 NRC seva kendras in the state will receive claims and objections from the people who were left out in the final draft and over 20,000 NRC employees have …

Assam NRC case: SC defers date for receiving claims, objections
6 years, 6 months ago

Assam NRC case: SC defers date for receiving claims, objections

India TV News  

Assam NRC case: SC defers date for receiving claims, objections The top court had termed the issue as "human problem with great magnitude" and had asked the state NRC coordinator to submit a report in a sealed cover on the ramification of allowing the claimants to file new sets of legacy documents. The top court had termed the issue as …

NRC full of errors, natives left out, says former Assam CM Prafulla Kumar Mahanta
6 years, 7 months ago

NRC full of errors, natives left out, says former Assam CM Prafulla Kumar Mahanta

Hindustan Times  

Former Assam chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, who led a six-year agitation against illegal Bangladeshi migrants in the 1980s, leading to the so-called Assam Accord, has said the provisional National Register of Citizens made public on July 30 was riddled with errors. Prafulla Kumar Mahanta reiterated his party would pull out of Assam’s Sarbananda Sonowal-led BJP government if the Narendra …

NRC: What will happen to those left out?
6 years, 7 months ago

NRC: What will happen to those left out?

Deccan Chronicle  

Assam has a historical problem with migration dating back to 1826 when the region was merged with the Bengal Presidency. Finally foreigners who came to Assam on or after March 25, 1971 shall be detected, deleted and practical steps shall be taken to expel such foreigners. In 2000, current chief minister of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal, who had just demitted office …

Congress attacks BJP on Assam NRC, says UPA deported over 80,000 Bangladeshis in 2005-2013
6 years, 7 months ago

Congress attacks BJP on Assam NRC, says UPA deported over 80,000 Bangladeshis in 2005-2013

Firstpost  

Daring Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Shah to clarify their stance on Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016, Surjewala said: “On one side, they are shedding crocodile tears on NRC and claiming deportation of foreigners, and on the other, Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016 seeks to give citizenship to foreigners undoing the entire process of NRC.” New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday alleged …

NRC and the nativity test in Assam
6 years, 7 months ago

NRC and the nativity test in Assam

Deccan Chronicle  

The inhabitants of Assam have now reached the penultimate stage of their nativity test with the publication of the final draft National Register of Citizens on July 30. A little more than four million people, almost the size of the total population of Panama or Georgia, have been left out of the draft NRC. Until this process is over and …

How time was ripe for Assam NRC
6 years, 7 months ago

How time was ripe for Assam NRC

India Today  

The publication of the final draft of National Register of Citizens for Assam on July 30 has resulted in tremors not just in the state but also in the national capital. The NRC final draft, which left out more than 40 lakh people from its list, agitated West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to the extent that a day later …

How one couple fought for the NRC in Assam
6 years, 7 months ago

How one couple fought for the NRC in Assam

Live Mint  

Guwahati/ Kokrajhar: The Nellie massacre of 1983 was a turning point in Assam’s troubled history, and the raging differences between the state’s indigenous population and illegal immigrants, mostly Muslims, from across the border. New Delhi’s decision to hold elections in the border state that year, coinciding with the peak of All Assam Students’ Union agitation against the influx from across …

Assam NRC Row updates: Police prohibits TMC delegation, leaders from entering Guwahati until further notice
6 years, 7 months ago

Assam NRC Row updates: Police prohibits TMC delegation, leaders from entering Guwahati until further notice

Firstpost  

7:40 PM Whatsapp Facebook Twitter BJP’s ally in Tripura strikes discordant note on NRC revision The Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura, an ally of the ruling BJP in the north-eastern state, has raised a case for a revision of the citizens’ register to safeguard the state’s demography, despite Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb’s assertion that there is no need for …

NRC fallout: Gorkhas of Assam feel left out
6 years, 7 months ago

NRC fallout: Gorkhas of Assam feel left out

The Hindu  

The complete draft of the updated National Register of Citizens published on July 30 has made the Gorkhas of Assam feel they are paying the price for India’s treaty with Nepal almost seven decades ago. While the focus of the NRC has been on the exclusion of Bengali Muslims and Hindus — two communities often suspected to be illegal migrants …

'NRC has been fair and invaluable; let's not twist it with malicious propaganda': An Assamese citizen's appeal
6 years, 7 months ago

'NRC has been fair and invaluable; let's not twist it with malicious propaganda': An Assamese citizen's appeal

Firstpost  

The NRC is one of the most hotly debated national issues. The story of the National Register of Citizens began with the Assam Agitation: A time in my state’s history when the entire population rallied behind young students who struggled for 6 gruelling years to protect the interests of the indigenous people of Assam. The strong sentiments of the people …

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