The three-time CM fears that both religious and linguistic minorities will suffer as a result of the NRC list despite being genuine Indian citizens.
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Former IPS officer Hiranya Bhattacharyya’s book comes at a time when Assam is once again on the edge over NRC update and the controversial citizenship bill.
Mamata Banerjee recently alleged BJP govt was trying to drive out ethnic Bengalis, but even those whose names are missing from first draft aren’t worried.
Himanta Biswa Sarma says Assam’s ethnic Muslims have nothing to fear about NRC update and the state belongs as much to them as it does to other communities
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
An exceedingly unwise, futile enterprise. If deportation is not possible, why put the entire society through so much gut wrenching upheaval ? If a family crossed over a few months / years / decades after 24031971, what is to be done with them ? What of children born in India to such families who, by international law, become citizens ? This exercise will cause havoc, put relations with Bangladesh, possibly the only man left standing in an unfriendly neighbourhood, under strain. We are sowing a very bitter harvest.
An exceedingly unwise, futile enterprise. If deportation is not possible, why put the entire society through so much gut wrenching upheaval ? If a family crossed over a few months / years / decades after 24031971, what is to be done with them ? What of children born in India to such families who, by international law, become citizens ? This exercise will cause havoc, put relations with Bangladesh, possibly the only man left standing in an unfriendly neighbourhood, under strain. We are sowing a very bitter harvest.