From Bhupen Goswami
Guwahathi: The National Register of Citizens (NRC) was monitored by the Supreme Court of India. People expected that the issue of illegal Bangladeshis that had been going on for decades after the final NRC came to an address, but we are very sure of the way things changed after it came to the fore. The assembly elections can be heard, then once there will be politics on this issue. Now, the state Government and anybody are not dare to tell the NRC the truth altogether. The National Register of Citizens (NRC) officials have asked the final NRC in the state to remove more than 2.77 lakh undesirable and declared foreigners from the final NRC in the state.
Out of 3.3 crore applicants, more than 19 lakh people were not named in the final list released on August 31, 2019. Since the release of the list, the petitioners, who reached the Supreme Court in the case from the ruling BJP, also questioned its credibility. The Assam government has been consistently demanding that 10-20 per cent of the people who have joined to ‘ correct’ this register should be reverification. The Guwahati High Court has been informed that the Assam National Citizenship Register may include the names of 2.77 lakh undesirable people due to poor quality checks and controls.
The affidavit filed by nrc coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma of Assam said that the NRC authority has estimated that the draft has been made on the basis of one lakh names made after the verification of 27% names of NRC. It said that the rest of the NRC may also have a large number of unwanted names. According to this, ” in view of the fact that 1, 02462 names have been removed from the certification of 27 per cent of the draft NRC names. It cannot be denied that the remaining 73% unseed results may have 2.77 lakh undesirable names in terms of corresponding arithmetic. It may be recalled that the Guwahati High Court had sought the affidavit while hearing the case relating to “declared foreigners”, claiming that their names were in the last Assam NRC released in 2019.
In the final Assam NRC, it was found that more than 3 crore 10 lakh eligible were entitled to join the registry, out of which 19 lakh people were identified. It may be mentioned that it is also the same NGO which was the original petitioner in the apex court to update the NRC in Assam under the supervision of the Supreme Court. After the publication of the list in August last year, the APW said that the process of the final NRC list was completed in a faulty manner. In September that year, its chief Abhijit Sharma, while talking to the correspondent, raised a number of questions about the NRC process, the then NRC coordinator symbol Hazela, and said that there were many names which should not have been there.
Their demand is 100 per cent of the list. In Assam, NRC coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma told the Guwahati High Court that the final list of NRC is yet to be published on behalf of the Registrar General of India. In a three December affidavit written to the Guwahati High Court, nrc coordinator Hitesh Sarma said that the Registrar General of India has not said anything on the publication of the final NRC. On the list on 31st August 2019, he said that he was a supplementary NRC.
