Citizens for Justice and Peace
CJP Impact: NRC Authority relaxes stand on SOPs for Claims and Objections Process Move comes day after CJP Facebook Live exposes how women and children are suffering
23-Nov-2018
On November 21, CJP Secretary Teesta Setalvad and our Assam Project Coordinator Zamser Ali appeared together on a Facebook Live broadcast to highlight the plight of people who were facing several challenges in filing claims to have their names included in the National Register of Citizens (NRC). A day after this, NRC State Coordinator Prateek…
CJP Launches App to aid in Filing NRC Claims in Assam App will help volunteers collect data and streamline process
21-Nov-2018
Assam is on the precipice of a major crisis, with more than 40 lakh people being left out of its National Register of Citizens. In spite of the claims and objections process having begun, and less than one month before it concludes, more than 35 lakh people have reportedly not yet applied to be included…
CJP in Action: Our Volunteer Motivators Go Above and Beyond Our toll-free helpline widens our reach
15-Nov-2018
CJP’s Volunteer Motivators (VMs) are committed to helping people all over Assam with filing claims and objections for the National Register of Citizens (NRC). Our toll-free helpline allows our volunteers to not only immediately help callers, but also expand our reach to areas that have thus far not received much assistance. Recently, a college student…
এনআৰচিৰ দাবী আৰু আপত্তি প্ৰক্ৰিয়াত সঘনাই উত্থাপন হোৱা প্ৰশ্নসমূহ চিজেপি অসম গোটৰ টলফ্ৰি নম্বৰলৈ অহা প্ৰশ্নসমূহ
06-Nov-2018
চিজেপি অসম গোটে এন আৰ চিৰ নাম অন্তৰ্ভুক্ত নোহোৱা ব্যক্তিসকলক দাবী-আপত্তি আবেদন প্ৰক্ৰিয়াত সহায় কৰাৰ উদ্দেশ্যে অক্টোবৰ ২০১৮ ত এটি বিনামূলীয়া টেলিফোন সেৱা মুকলি কৰে। সঘনাই উত্থাপন হোৱা কিছু প্ৰশ্নৰ তালিকা তলত দিয়া হ’ল।
Frequently Asked Questions for the NRC’s Claims and Objections Process CJP's team in Assam fields questions on our toll-free number
06-Nov-2018
CJP’s team in Assam launched a toll-free number in October 2018 to help those who have been excluded from the final draft of Assam’s National Register of Citizens (NRC) file claims and objections. Here is a list of some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding the process:
CJP in Action: No hurdle too big for our Volunteer Motivators Our work with those excluded from Assam's NRC persists
02-Nov-2018
CJP’s efforts in Assam are ongoing, with our committed volunteers helping people across the state with the process for filing claims and objections for the National Register of Citizens (NRC), which has disrupted the lives of millions, leaving their fate as Indian citizens in limbo. Within a month of our toll-free helpline being launched, we…
SC grants relief to the people of Assam, rejects attempt to subvert NRC process Ruling comes as major relief to lakhs excluded from NRC
01-Nov-2018
Providing relief to lakhs of Assamese, the Supreme Court today allowed the inclusion of all fifteen documents for the ongoing claims process of the National Register of Citizens (NRC). The verdict deals a blow to NRC state coordinator Shri Prateek Hajela’s contention that five specific documents be dropped from the list of documents required to…
NRC Coordinator’s stand in SC based on hypotheses, will dilute NRC Process (Part Two) CJP continues its analysis of NRC Coordinator, Prateek Hajela's Affidavit
31-Oct-2018
The affidavit submitted by NRC state Co-ordinator, Prateek Hajela in the Supreme Court of India, strongly opposing five crucial documents to be allowed in the ‘Claims’ process, apart from going back on NRC’s own established procedures, also contains hypothetical and unsubstantiated theories. In Part One of our analyses we have laid down how this sudden about…
Is there a wider conspiracy to derail the NRC ? (Part One) Confidential Report of Coordinator, Prateek Hajela contains not only Falsehoods and Propaganda but is also Self Contradictory
29-Oct-2018
If those among the 40 lakh plus persons whose names have been dropped from the final draft of NRC, are not permitted by an ill-advised and belated order of the Supreme Court, to reject the NRC-1951 and Voters list (up to the midnight March 24, 1971 as sufficient proof of citizenship) the core issue that…
Yet Another Citizen Commits Suicide in Assam 30th incident since the NRC update started
29-Oct-2018
After being falsely accused of being a ‘foreigner’, Deepak Debnath of Udalgiri district, Assam committed suicide by hanging himself in a grove near his house. Watch this video to know more.
CJP in Action: Words of Encouragement pour in as CJP’s NRC Helpline rings off the hook! Assam Press shares our TOLL FREE number to help people
27-Oct-2018
Within a month of launching our TOLL FREE Helpline Number in Assam, we are receiving words of encouragement from the Assam press that has also helped popularise the number among their readers, allowing us to reach the maximum number of people. Today our phones are ringing off the hook! Our number was shared by The…
असम में NRC की वजह से एक और आत्महत्या निरोद बरन दास २९वे शिकार हुए है
22-Oct-2018
खारुपेटिआ गांव के जानेमाने बुद्धिजीवी, अध्यापक और वकील निरोद बरन दास ने आत्महत्या कर ली है. ऐसा माना जा रहा है की NRC के कारण नागरिकता छिन जाने के डर ने अब तक 28 लोगों की जान ली है. निरोद बरन दास २९वे शिकार हुए है. NRC प्रकरण में हो रही कुछ गलतिओं की वजह…
Teesta Setalvad and Zamser Ali take you through CJP’s Initiatives in Assam Watch a video of our Live Facebook chat!
20-Oct-2018
In this live video chat held on Facebook recently, CJP secretary Teesta Setalvad and CJP’s Assam initiative coordinator Zamser Ali discuss the various initiatives on ground as well as the challenges faced in our outreach program. If you are an Indian citizen in Assam and need any help in filing your application as a part…
“They came late at night demanding our fingerprints”: Three Sisters of Tubuki The Making and Re-Making of Indians as Citizens in Assam: A CJP Series
20-Oct-2018
Something insidious is underway in Tubuki village in Kampur Tehsil of Assam’s Nagaon district. Border Police personnel are allegedly going to people’s homes late at night demanding fingerprints! Three women from this village have alleged that officers of the Border Police came to their homes after dark, asked them to provide fingerprints and left after…
Dalit Migrant Workers Falsely Implicated in Bhima Koregaon Clashes! Watch this video to know more
15-Oct-2018
The Pune Police’s first attempts to link ‘Maoists’ to the violence that erupted at the Elgaar Parishad programe, happened before the activists arrest. In January 2018, 8 men including 5 workers and a contractor of Reliance Infrastructure private limited were arrested in alleged connection with the Bhima Koregaon incidents of violence. These arrests, however, hardly…