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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Foreigner until proven Indian -Sudipta Bhattacharjee

Foreigner until proven Indian -Sudipta Bhattacharjee

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published Published on Jul 18, 2019   modified Modified on Jul 18, 2019
-The Telegraph

In a fortnight, we will know how many lakhs will be catapulted into a maelstrom of trauma thanks to the NRC

What does it take to prove one’s identity (read citizenship) in a sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic?

Ask nonagenarian Amar Upadhyay, whose daughter, Baijayanti Devi, was the first woman martyr of the Assam Agitation, and who contested the assembly elections. Ask Kargil veteran, Mohammad Sanaullah. Ask Manju Devi, the great-granddaughter of the freedom fighter, Chabilal Upadhyay. Ask Sahitya Akademi award winner, Durga Khatiwada. Ask Mamud Ali, a CISF jawan for 25 years. They or their families have been denied inclusion in the National Register of Citizens, which is being updated in Assam.

The register contains names of Indian citizens based on the 1951 census. Although the exigencies of enrolment have been in place from 2013, when Assam launched the process of updating the NRC on the directive of the Supreme Court to weed out ‘foreigners’, the July 31 deadline for its final publication has galvanized the process. And how!

On July 30, 2018, the complete draft of the NRC was released, with the names of nearly 40 lakh people missing. On June 30 this year, an additional draft list was published with the names of another 1.02 lakh excludees. Names of residents (or their descendants) in the NRC of 1951, or any of the electoral rolls or those with admissible documents up to the midnight of March 24, 1971 will be included. When the NRC was first prepared in Assam in 1951, the state had 80 lakh citizens. The 2011 census put the state’s total population at over 3.11 crore.

One of the ministers of state for home affairs, G. Kishan Reddy, told the Lok Sabha that 63,959 people had been declared foreigners by tribunals in Assam between 1985 and February 28 this year. As on June 25, there are 1,133 persons in Assam’s six detention centres. “Free legal aid is being provided to detainees... who are in need of it,” Reddy said.

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The Telegraph, 16 July, 2019, https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/as-the-nrc-deadline-approaches-many-are-considered-foreigner-until-proven-indian/cid/1694542?ref=comment_home-template


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