NRC final list : Many genuine Indian citizens left out
5 years, 4 months ago

NRC final list : Many genuine Indian citizens left out

India TV News  

Assam Government Saturday claimed that many genuine Indian citizens have been left out of the final NRC but they need not panic as they can appeal to the Foreigners Tribunal. The government will provide legal support to the excluded people, Assam Parliamentary Affairs Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary told PTI. "One thing is sure that many genuine Indians were left out of the NRC. The state and the central governments had appealed the apex court twice for sample re-verification to find out wrongful inclusions, especially in districts bordering Bangladesh, and exclusions in the NRC.

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Assam Citizenship Crisis: Supreme Court Backs 1971 Cut-off Date, Impact on NRC and CAA Implementation
2 months ago

Assam Citizenship Crisis: Supreme Court Backs 1971 Cut-off Date, Impact on NRC and CAA Implementation

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 07, 2024 21:26 IST - 12 MINS READ With the five-member Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. The Assam Sanmilita Mahasangha filed a petition challenging Section 6A and seeking 1951 as the cut-off year for accepting immigrants as Indian citizens; it also wanted the NRC to be updated. The State now has two cut-off …

Assam’s NRC not final, Foreigners’ Tribunals told
2 years, 7 months ago

Assam’s NRC not final, Foreigners’ Tribunals told

The Hindu  

GUWAHATI The State Coordinator of the National Register of Citizens has reminded members of Foreigners’ Tribunals across Assam to not consider the draft NRC and its supplementary list as reliable evidence for the disposal of cases. “Since the Registrar General of Citizens Registration has not declared NRC as final and there are errors, things may change when the final NRC …

Assam CM wants fresh NRC
2 years, 9 months 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 …

Assam to seek Aadhaar cards for persons left out of NRC
2 years, 9 months ago

Assam to seek Aadhaar cards for persons left out of NRC

The Hindu  

The Assam government has decided to approach the Supreme Court for directing the Centre to provide Aadhaar cards to people left out of the updated National Register of Citizens published in 2019. “The lack of Aadhaar cards has deprived these 27 lakh people, some of whom belong to the indigenous communities, of government schemes such as free rice or housing. …

No Decision On Nationwide NRC Till Now : Centre Tells Lok Sabha
3 years, 1 month ago

No Decision On Nationwide NRC Till Now : Centre Tells Lok Sabha

Live Law  

The Central Government told the Lok Sabha on Tuesday that it has not taken any decision till now to prepare National Register of Citizens at the national level. "Till now, the Government has not taken any decision to prepare National Register of Citizens at national level", said a written reply given by the Minister of State in the Ministry of …

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

Done and dusted: On the National Register of Citizens process
3 years, 3 months ago

Done and dusted: On the National Register of Citizens process

The Hindu  

While there may have been lulls aplenty, the next twist or turn in the long-running saga of the National Register of Citizens update for Assam is never far. Unsurprisingly, its publication annoyed political parties across the ideological divide, with some alleging it victimised document-less Bengali Hindus and indigenous Assamese people and others that it targeted the State’s Bengali-origin Muslims. In …

NRC Published in August 2019 is Final, Rules Assam Foreigners' Tribunal
3 years, 3 months ago

NRC Published in August 2019 is Final, Rules Assam Foreigners' Tribunal

News 18  

The National Register of Citizens published on August 31, 2019 is the “Final NRC”, ruled a Foreigners’ Tribunal in Assam, even as the Registrar General of India is yet to notify it. Declaring a man Indian citizen, the tribunal in Karimganj district held that though National Identity Cards are yet to be issued, “but there is no doubt that this …

NRC is final, rules Assam Foreigners’ Tribunal
3 years, 3 months ago

NRC is final, rules Assam Foreigners’ Tribunal

The Hindu  

While the Registrar General of India has not yet issued a notification on Assam’s National Register of Citizens to make it a legal document, a Foreigners’ Tribunal has gone ahead and recorded it as the “ final NRC ” while declaring a man to be Indian. Hearing a case against one Bikram Singha of Jamirala village whose name figured in …

Two years later, Assam’s NRC remains incomplete and controversial
3 years, 4 months ago

Two years later, Assam’s NRC remains incomplete and controversial

Hindustan Times  

It was expected to be a document that would end, once and for all, Assam’s long festering issue of illegal immigrants. The controversy around inclusion, exclusion and corruption Besides the application filed by the NRC coordinator, several others were also filed in SC blaming the process and seeking re-verification of the list. Two of them were filed by Assam Public …

Two years since NRC, lakhs still remain in limbo
3 years, 4 months ago

Two years since NRC, lakhs still remain in limbo

The Hindu  

More than 19 lakh out of 3.3 crore applicants were left out of the complete draft of Assam’s National Register of Citizens published on August 31, 2019. In February 2020, NRC State Coordinator Hitesh Dev Goswami wrote to the Assam government advising the unlocking of the biometric details of the 8.37 lakh people who made it back to the list. …

CAA, NRC won’t affect India’s Muslims: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat
3 years, 5 months ago

CAA, NRC won’t affect India’s Muslims: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

The Hindu  

The Citizenship Act and National Register of Citizens would not harm India’s Muslims, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat said at a book launch function in Guwahati on Wednesday. Mr. Bhagwat said, “Not a single Indian Muslim will face any loss due to the new citizenship Act. ‘India welcomes outsiders’ Indians had always welcomed outsiders but the “designs by some …

Assam NRC authority seeks re-verification of citizens’ list
3 years, 7 months ago

Assam NRC authority seeks re-verification of citizens’ list

The Hindu  

The Assam National Register of Citizens authority has approached the Supreme Court seeking a comprehensive and time-bound re-verification of the citizens’ list, highlighting “major irregularities” in the process. The interlocutory application by State NRC Coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma also prays for the deletion of illegal voters from Assam’s electoral rolls besides the revision of the draft NRC and a supplementary …

Assam NRC: State Coordinator Moves Supreme Court Seeking Comprehensive, Time Bound Re-verification Of Draft NRC
3 years, 7 months ago

Assam NRC: State Coordinator Moves Supreme Court Seeking Comprehensive, Time Bound Re-verification Of Draft NRC

Live Law  

The State Co-ordinator of the Assam NRC has approached the Supreme Court seeking a comprehensive and time bound reverification of draft NRC and the supplementary list of NRC under Clause 4 of Schedule of Citizenship Rules, 2003 highlighting major irregularity in the process of making the same.The intervention application. The State Co-ordinator of the Assam NRC has approached the Supreme …

Court stays sacking of 252 Assam NRC workers
3 years, 8 months ago

Court stays sacking of 252 Assam NRC workers

The Hindu  

The Gauhati High Court has stayed the termination of 252 junior assistants who had been employed on contract for updating the National Register of Citizens in Assam. They were served the termination notice on March 26, three days after the Registrar General of India ordered the closure of the NRC office in Assam and declined to sanction any fund after …

Assam NRC list of August 2019 not final, state coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma tells Gauhati High Court
4 years, 1 month ago

Assam NRC list of August 2019 not final, state coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma tells Gauhati High Court

Firstpost  

In an affidavit, Sarma said that over 10,000 names were either wrongly included or excluded in the list, adding that necessary orders have been issued to delete nearly 4,800 ‘ineligible persons’ from the document Guwahati: The historic National Register of Citizens in Assam published in August last year was only a “supplementary list” and the final document is yet to …

Assam NRC Published Last Year Not Final, Over 10k Names Wrongly Included: State Coordinator to HC
4 years, 1 month ago

Assam NRC Published Last Year Not Final, Over 10k Names Wrongly Included: State Coordinator to HC

News 18  

The historic National Register of Citizens in Assam published in August last year was only a "supplementary list" and the final document is yet to come out, state coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma has told the Gauhati High Court. In the "supplementary list" of the NRC, over 10,000 names were either wrongly included or excluded and necessary orders have been issued …

‘Foreigners’ in the NRC: Affidavit filed in High Court
4 years, 1 month ago

‘Foreigners’ in the NRC: Affidavit filed in High Court

The Hindu  

The National Register of Citizens authorities have submitted to the Gauhati High Court an affidavit reportedly containing the details of “illegal foreigners” whose names had crept into the updated list of citizens released in 2019. It was later found that some “ineligible people” — those without papers establishing their domicile in Assam before March 24, 1971 — had been included …

How Ineligible Persons Were Included in NRC? Gauhati HC Asks Coordinator to File Affidavit in 3 Weeks
4 years, 2 months ago

How Ineligible Persons Were Included in NRC? Gauhati HC Asks Coordinator to File Affidavit in 3 Weeks

News 18  

Gauhati High Court has directed the NRC state coordinator to file a comprehensive affidavit explaining how a section of ineligible persons managed to include their names in the National Register of Citizens. Hearing a writ petition by Rahima Begam against a Nalbari district Foreigners' Tribunal order declaring her a foreigner, the HC Bench comprising Justices Manojit Bhuyan and Soumitra Saikia …

Explain Inclusion Of 'Undeserving' Individuals In Assam National Register Of Citizens: Gauhati High Court Directs NRC Coordinator [Read Order]
4 years, 2 months ago

Explain Inclusion Of 'Undeserving' Individuals In Assam National Register Of Citizens: Gauhati High Court Directs NRC Coordinator [Read Order]

Live Law  

In a recent verdict, the Gauhati High Court asked the coordinator of National Register of Citizens to explain how the name of the Petitioner got included in the Register despite the fact that at the relevant point of time, proceedings against her were continuing. "Let the Assam State Coordinator, NRC file a comprehensive affidavit and bring on record the situations …

Around 10,000 'ineligible names' to be deleted from final NRC in Assam, say reports
4 years, 2 months ago

Around 10,000 'ineligible names' to be deleted from final NRC in Assam, say reports

Firstpost  

NRC coordinator Sarma said he cannot comment on the total number of “erroneous inclusions", however, sources told PTI that around 10,000 people have been identified whose names were “wrongly included” Around 10,000 names will be deleted from the final NRC in Assam as many “ineligible persons” and their descendants were included in the list, according to a directive issued by …

Names of 10,000 'Ineligible Persons' and Their Descendants to Be Deleted from Final Assam NRC List
4 years, 2 months ago

Names of 10,000 'Ineligible Persons' and Their Descendants to Be Deleted from Final Assam NRC List

News 18  

Around 10,000 names will be deleted from the final NRC in Assam as many “ineligible persons” and their descendants were included in the list, according to a directive issued by its state coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma and officials in the know of the decision. “As per the reports received from your end through Webform, some names of ineligible persons belonging …

Enforce NRC Throughout India To Remove "Illegal Immigrants": PIL In SC Seeks Issuance Of Directions To Centre To Revise Voters' List
4 years, 4 months ago

Enforce NRC Throughout India To Remove "Illegal Immigrants": PIL In SC Seeks Issuance Of Directions To Centre To Revise Voters' List

Live Law  

A plea has been moved in the Supreme Court seeking issuance of directions to the Government to take action against Foreigners illegally residing in India in violation of the foreigners Act, 1946 & against those residing in India in violation of the cut of date of March 1, 1947 & 19 July 1948.The plea seeks nationwide implementation of National Register …

Assam NRC authority seeks details of ‘ineligible persons’
4 years, 10 months ago

Assam NRC authority seeks details of ‘ineligible persons’

The Hindu  

The National Register of Citizens authority has indicated at an erroneous updating exercise by asking the district heads in Assam to provide details of “ineligible persons” in the final list of citizens published on August 31, 2019. Indigenous groups believe many illegal immigrants have made it to the NRC in the three Bengali-dominated southern Assam districts – Cachar, Hailakandi and …

Understanding the chronology: A few fundamental truths about the CAA, NRC, NPR and all the threads that bind the three together
5 years ago

Understanding the chronology: A few fundamental truths about the CAA, NRC, NPR and all the threads that bind the three together

Firstpost  

Unlike in 2010, where the National Population Register did not seek information on the date and place of birth of the parents of an individual, the upcoming data will ask for this data. The National Register of Indian Citizens shall be divided into sub-parts consisting of the State Register of Indian Citizens, the District Register of Indian Citizens, the Sub-district …

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

What is NRC: All you need to know about National Register of Citizens
5 years ago

What is NRC: All you need to know about National Register of Citizens

India Today  

The passing of the Citizenship Amendment Act has set off protests across the country, with many fearing that the controversial legislation which grants to select minorities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh Indian citizenship will be used in conjunction with the National Register of Citizens to deem minorities as "illegal immigrants". Now, many top BJP leaders including Home Minister Amit Shah …

Why the nationwide NRC proposed by Amit Shah is being criticised
5 years, 1 month 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, 1 month 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 …

Amit Shah says NRC applies across India, Mamata Banerjee says not in West Bengal
5 years, 1 month ago

Amit Shah says NRC applies across India, Mamata Banerjee says not in West Bengal

India Today  

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says her Trinamool Congress government won't allow the National Register of Citizens in her state. She said on Wednesday that no one could take anyone's citizenship away in Bengal, and that her government wouldn't divide people on communal lines. Earlier, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the NRC would be implemented across India, and …

Amit Shah: NRC to apply nationwide, no person of any religion should worry
5 years, 1 month ago

Amit Shah: NRC to apply nationwide, no person of any religion should worry

India Today  

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has told Parliament that the National Register of Citizens will be implemented nationwide. Amit Shah said in Parliament that people whose names are missing from the NRC can approach tribunals formed at the tehsil level. ON JAMMU AND KASHMIR Shah also took questions on the prevailing situation in Jammu and Kashmir, whose special status was …

Those out of Assam NRC will continue to vote till they exhaust legal remedies: EC
5 years, 3 months ago

Those out of Assam NRC will continue to vote till they exhaust legal remedies: EC

India TV News  

Days after the Union Home Ministry clarified that those left out of the National Register of Citizens in Assam will continue to enjoy all rights of a citizen till they exhaust all legal remedies, the Election Commission has decided that such people will continue to be voters if their names exist in the electoral rolls of the state. A senior …

Assam govt issues notice to set up 200 additional Foreigner Tribunals in 33 districts for hearing appeals of those excluded from final NRC
5 years, 3 months ago

Assam govt issues notice to set up 200 additional Foreigner Tribunals in 33 districts for hearing appeals of those excluded from final NRC

Firstpost  

The Assam government has issued a notification setting up 200 more appellate Foreigner Tribunals for hearing of appeals of people excluded from the final National Register of Citizens Guwahati: The Assam government has issued a notification setting up 200 more appellate Foreigner Tribunals for hearing of appeals of people excluded from the final National Register of Citizens. The appeal against …

National Register of Citizens in Assam: Trauma of exclusion
5 years, 3 months ago

National Register of Citizens in Assam: Trauma of exclusion

The Hindu  

FOURTEEN years after New Delhi gave its commitment to update the National Register of Citizens in Assam, the State has got the final list of the updated register. The Narendra Modi government has promised to bring the Citizenship Bill to grant citizenship to Hindu and other non-Muslim migrants among those excluded from the final NRC list in Assam. The BJP …

Opinion | NRC: Tread with caution
5 years, 3 months ago

Opinion | NRC: Tread with caution

Live Mint  

Union home minister and Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah has said that India shall soon introduce a nationwide National Register of Citizens. He said the government has a mandate for carrying out such an exercise since it was part of the BJP’s election promises, based on which the party was voted to power. As much as the idea of …

Assam NRC: Why those included in final list are still at risk of exclusion
5 years, 3 months ago

Assam NRC: Why those included in final list are still at risk of exclusion

India Today  

The National Register of Citizens authority on Saturday published the final list of the National Register of Citizens on its website that includes the citizenship status of every individual in Assam. The final list of Assam NRC was published by the government on August 31, leaving out 19 lakh people out of the citizenship list. On August 31, the NRC …

Final NRC status of all Assam applicants published
5 years, 3 months ago

Final NRC status of all Assam applicants published

The Hindu  

The National Register of Citizens authority on Saturday published the individual status of all the 3.3 crore people of Assam who had applied for inclusion in the updated citizens’ registry when the exercise began five years ago. The list – which has the names of those who have been accepted as citizens, those who have been rejected and those whose …

Final NRC list: List of exclusion
5 years, 3 months ago

Final NRC list: List of exclusion

The Hindu  

THE Bharatiya Janata Party has been talking about compiling a countrywide National Register of Citizens, but it speaks in two voices about the final list of the updated NRC in Assam. While the Narendra Modi government has claimed that “the NRC is a fair process based on scientific methods”, the Assam unit of the BJP has rejected the final NRC …

Assam NRC final status of accepted, excluded people published online
5 years, 3 months ago

Assam NRC final status of accepted, excluded people published online

India Today  

The Assam National Register of Citizens list with individual statuses of all the 3.30 crore applicants was on Saturday published online. All persons who had applied for the inclusion of their names in the NRC list and have a valid ARN number can check their final status online at nrcassam.nic.in. The Assam individuals can also check the names of their …

NRC has made many people with families, careers and property 'foreigners in their own country', says Shashi Tharoor
5 years, 4 months ago

NRC has made many people with families, careers and property 'foreigners in their own country', says Shashi Tharoor

Firstpost  

Senior Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor said on Wednesday that National Register of Citizens has made ‘many people who have families, careers, properties in India suddenly a foreigner’ in their own country New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor said on Wednesday that National Register of Citizens has made “many people who have …

Rs 1,220-cr and 10 years later, NRC leaves group favouring exercise dissatisfied, raises doubts over migrant numbers in Assam
5 years, 4 months ago

Rs 1,220-cr and 10 years later, NRC leaves group favouring exercise dissatisfied, raises doubts over migrant numbers in Assam

Firstpost  

The NRC in Assam, which took ten years, employed 52,000 government employees and cost the government Rs 1,220 crore, is now being considered as a fruitless exercise by the very same people who sought it in order to detect and deport of illegal migrants from the northeastern state The National Register of Citizenship, which took 10 years, employed 52,000 government …

Opinion | NRC: Who’s in, who’s out
5 years, 4 months ago

Opinion | NRC: Who’s in, who’s out

Live Mint  

The publication of the final list of the National Register of Citizens in Assam may have opened up a Pandora’s Box. It is bad enough that a state with deep ethnic, linguistic and religious fault lines, evident in the frequency of social flare-ups, has been engaged in a convoluted process of working out who is an Indian citizen and who …

Assam NRC final list: MHA says adequate judicial process available to appeal to Foreigners' Tribunals for excluded people
5 years, 4 months ago

Assam NRC final list: MHA says adequate judicial process available to appeal to Foreigners' Tribunals for excluded people

Firstpost  

According to the final NRC, out of the total 3.3 crore applicants, 3.11 crore figured in the list and names of about 19 lakh residents were excluded New Delhi: The Centre on Monday said no person excluded from the final NRC list will be detained till he or she exhausts all legal remedies. The MHA said adequate judicial process is …

Assam NRC Excluded Persons Will Continue To Enjoy Rights Of Citizens : Union Home Ministry
5 years, 4 months ago

Assam NRC Excluded Persons Will Continue To Enjoy Rights Of Citizens : Union Home Ministry

Live Law  

To clear the uncertainty over the fate of over 19 lakh persons excluded from the National Register of Citizens published for Assam on August 31, the Ministry of Home Affairs has said that they will continue to enjoy all rights like any other citizen. The State Government has made necessary arrangements for providing legal aid to the excluded persons through …

Assam NRC: BJP to move Supreme Court seeking re-verification of data
5 years, 4 months ago

Assam NRC: BJP to move Supreme Court seeking re-verification of data

India TV News  

The final list of the National Register of Citizens may be out in Assam, but both the central and the state BJP feel that there's enough room for errors. In the final NRC list released on Saturday, the ones left out are mostly Bengali Hindu refugees who had come to Assam before 1971, or people who couldn't furnish enough documents. …

Assam NRC : The Danger In Leaving The Issue Of Citizenship To Foreigners Tribunals
5 years, 4 months ago

Assam NRC : The Danger In Leaving The Issue Of Citizenship To Foreigners Tribunals

Live Law  

Defining Indian citizenship in Assam has always been problematic. The Supreme Court steps in In 2009, certain petitions were filed before the Supreme Court challenging the validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act. The Court held: If the power to constitute and create judicial Tribunals by executive orders is recognized, there is every likelihood of Tribunals being created without …

AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal urges intellectuals to ensure final NRC accepted as document for resolving foreigners' issue in Assam
5 years, 4 months ago

AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal urges intellectuals to ensure final NRC accepted as document for resolving foreigners' issue in Assam

Firstpost  

Guwahati: AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal on Sunday appealed to intellectuals to come forward and ensure that the final NRC is accepted as a document to resolve the foreigners’ issue in Assam. The NRC was updated following the demand of people and all political parties of Assam, and the nearly five-year-long intensive exercise to prepare it under the supervision of the …

Assam: Excluded in NRC, Army soldiers ask should they fight enemy or prove citizenship
5 years, 4 months ago

Assam: Excluded in NRC, Army soldiers ask should they fight enemy or prove citizenship

India Today  

Saruharid village of Barpeta district in Assam is known as the Fauji Gaon in the locality. Ironically, many of these soldiers are facing an identity crisis as their names didn't appear in the final NRC list which was published on August 31. He along with his younger brother Mizanur Ali have been declared ineligible for Indian citizenship as per the …

Unhappy BJP to move Supreme Court seeking reverifcation of NRC data
5 years, 4 months ago

Unhappy BJP to move Supreme Court seeking reverifcation of NRC data

India Today  

The final list of the National Register of Citizens may be out in Assam, but both the central and the state BJP feel that there's enough room for errors. In the final NRC list released on Saturday, the ones left out are mostly Bengali Hindu refugees who had come to Assam before 1971, or people who couldn't furnish enough documents. …

Exercise of NRC ‘botched up’: JD(U) leader Prashant Kishor
5 years, 4 months ago

Exercise of NRC ‘botched up’: JD(U) leader Prashant Kishor

Deccan Chronicle  

Patna: BJP’s ally JD has reacted strongly to the exclusion of around 19 lakh people from the final list of the National Register of Citizenship in Assam. In a post on Twitter, JD vice-president Prashant Kishor said the exercise was “botched up” and added that “the NRC has left lakhs of people as foreigners in their own country! Such is …

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