On Sunday, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that seven lakh Muslims are among the 19 lakh persons left out of the National Register of Citizens for the state.
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has detected anomalies in the updating of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam while the audit body is recommending action against a former State Coordinator and system integrator Wipro.
Paying a tearful tribute to “the martyrs of the struggle against National Register of Citizens (NRC) and Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), on its third anniversary, students of Jawaharlal Nehru University recollected the days of violent assault on citizenship protests across India.
A total of 31 persons who were declared foreigners have died in Assam’s six detention centres between 2016 and 2022, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said in the state assembly.
The 60-year-old dry fish seller Manik Das was fighting a legal battle to prove his citizenship before a Foreigner’s Tribunal (FT) in Assam since December 2019, despite his name appearing in the National Register for Citizens (NRC) that was published a few months before that.
Abdul Kalam Azad is a human rights researcher, community worker, and writer based in Assam. He is working on his Ph.D. thesis on Assam’s citizenship crisis at Athena Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.