Guwahati, Dec 11: In a big revelation, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday the state government is consulting experts to delete those names in National Register of Citizens (NRC) which made it through forged documents.
Speaking to reporters in Guwahati, Sarma said, “We are gradually making a big plan that those who enrolled their names in the NRC 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.”
The Assam Chief Minister attended the Swahid Diwas programme at Swahid Smarak Khetra, Paschim Boragaon, in Guwahati on Sunday.
In Assam, December 10 is marked as Swahid Diwas (Martyrs’ Day) to mark the death of Khargeswar Talukdar, the first person who was killed in the Assam Movement in 1979 in Bhabanipur.
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.”
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 inclusion on the list, and about 2 lakh had registered their objections. They were called for subsequent hearings, where provisions were made to obtain their biometric details.
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