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Woman, Family Living In Assam For 54 Years Declared "Foreigners" -Ratnadip Choudhury

-NDTV.com

80-year-old Bhandari Das is now a widow and her children are married. But they are still considered "foreigners" in India.

Guwahati: Bhandari Das fled from Bangladesh to India, an ally, in 1967 along with her husband and two children to escape "religious persecution" in her then hometown in Sylhet. She has lived as a foreigner at a village in Assam's Cachar district since then.

54 years later, the 80-year-old is now a widow and her children are married. But her family members are still considered "foreigners".

A Foreigners Tribunal in Silchar had declared her and her children as "streamline foreigners" who will now have to register with the Foreigners' Regional Registration Office (FRRO) and wait for 10 more years to become an Indian citizen.

"With my current health condition, I don't think I will ever be an Indian citizen anymore. But I am relieved that at least my children will be a citizen of this country someday," Ms Das told NDTV.

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