-Scroll.in Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma claimed that the CAG of India had found ‘huge irregularities’ in the updation process of the NRC three years ago. The Bharatiya Janata Party-led Assam Government on Thursday said it will make public the district-wise figures of Bengali Hindus excluded from the final National Register of Citizens list in the current Assembly session, PTI reported. The Assam Government had earlier urged the Centre to reject...
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The NRC is part of the BJP's attempt to redefine India's identity
-The Telegraph The Opposition’s feebleness at this moment of crisis for our secular, democratic founding principles is deeply worrying Once the chariot starts rolling, it is difficult to stop it. The Union home minister’s announcement in Parliament last week that the National Register of Citizens will be carried out throughout the country, including Assam in the ‘natural course of events’, rang with the confidence of a rolling chariot that can ignore all...
More »No death in Assam detention centres due to fear or lack of medicines: Govt
-PTI Admitting that 28 people have died in the detention centres, Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai said that all deaths were caused by some diseases. The government on Wednesday said there were no deaths of inmates in detention centres in Assam due to fear or lack of medicines. Admitting that 28 people have died in the detention centres, Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai said that all...
More »On NRC, Shah and Gogoi show a similar disregard for suffering of the vulnerable -Harsh Mander
-The Indian Express Justice Gogoi chose a moment, a few days before he remitted office, in a public function in Delhi, to vigorously defend the NRC in Assam. It is unusual for an incumbent Chief Justice to publicly declare his views on highly politically fraught matters. The country today stands at the brink of catastrophic human suffering and injustice, if the government implements, nation-wide, the National Register of Citizens (NRC), as...
More »Assam govt rejects present NRC, wants to be part of national NRC: Himanta Biswa Sarma -Hemanta Kumar Nath
-India Today Assam Finance Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said in Guwahati that the present NRC process in Assam should be scrapped and Assam wants to be a part of the national NRC process. Guwahati: Assam Government rejected the present National Register of Citizens (NRC) wanting it to be part of a national NRC. Rejecting the National Register of Citizens (NRC), which was published on August 31, the Assam Government welcomed...
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