Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said that the government is planning to delete the names of those who had got their names enrolled in the list of National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam by forgery.
“We are gradually making a big plan that those who enrolled their names in the NRC by making forgery, we will try to delete those names from the NRC list by bringing the forgery into light. For this, we have started to talk with the experts,” CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
The Assam Chief Minister made this statement at the time when there was an allegation that a large number of people’s names were enrolled in the NRC list by forgery.
Sarma said, “Personally I feel the date of detection and deportation of foreigners should be 1951.But as a government we have to accept 1971.”
According to the Assam Accord, signed after a six-year anti-foreigners’ movement, led by AASU, the cut-off date for detecting foreigners in Assam is March 24, 1971. AASU led the movement from 1979-1985.
All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) President Badruddin Ajmal blamed Congress for the problems faced by the public due to the National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise in the state.
Badruddin Ajmal, a Lok Sabha MP from Assam’s Dhubri constituency said that it is due to Congress that many people in the state are getting labelled as ‘Bangladeshis’.
“But we are not Bangladeshi, who built the detention camp here, it was Congress, who had created the NRC problem, it was Congress. It is Congress who put Bangladeshi tag on our foreheads,” Badruddin Ajmal said at a party meeting held in Assam’s Dhubri district on Saturday.
A cabinet subcommittee was formed to look into the problem of people whose names were not included in the supplementary list NRC, published in August, 2019.
Around 3.30 crore people had applied for inclusion in the NRC, but the names of nearly 40 lakhs of them were excluded in the draft NRC published on July 30, 2018. Of them, around 36.28 lakh people had claimed for inclusion on the list and about 2 lakhs had registered their objections. They were called for subsequent hearings where provisions were made to obtain their biometric details.
The supplementary NRC list had found more than 31.1 million people eligible to be included in the registry and left out over 1.9 million people.
Lakhs of peoples biometric details are locked and could not get Aadhaar cards thereby they are not able to get welfare scheme benefits.
NRC is an exercise to weed out illegal immigrants and is monitored by the Supreme Court.
