08-Sep-2018
The Illegal Immigrants (Identification and Deportation Bill, 2018 tabled by a BJP MP from Rajasthan seeks to snatch away the power of the lower and higher judiciary while unleashing communal propaganda in the country Guwahati, September 8:There appears to be another sinister game-plan underway. At a time when NRC is being updated in Assam for…
08-Sep-2018
Eminent literary critic Hiren Gohain talks to CJP about the history of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and how communal forces are trying to derail the NRC process. Related: NRC is the way to solve the migration issue democratically: Akhil Gogoi NRC से गायब हुआ पूर्व राष्ट्रपति के परिजनों का नाम! Assamese groups…
06-Sep-2018
The alleged double standards of the Government of India and Government of Assam with respect to the update of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam appear to have encouraged the NRC State Coordinator Prateek Hajela to allegedly violate an important NRC rule in a bid to drop five important documents from the Modalities.…
06-Sep-2018
Firebrand leader Akhil Gogoi speaks to CJP on the issue of NRC in Assam. He says that the NRC is the most democratic way to solve the issue democratically. But the BJP and the RSS are trying to dilute the National Register of Citizens by introducing the citizenship amendment bill. Also Read: NRC से…
03-Sep-2018
Abdul Kadir is the Imam of the mosque in his village. He is a much loved and highly respectable member of his community. People look up to him for his wisdom and good counsel. However, now both, he and his wife Hamida Khatoon have been declared foreigners by a Foreigner’s Tribunal. Moreover, all his children…
31-Aug-2018
भारत के पांचवें राष्ट्रपति फखरुद्दीन अली अहमद के परिवार वालों का नाम NRC में नहीं है! अब सवाल ये उठता है कि NRC अधिकारियों ने सूची के अद्यतन में उस इलाके में आई बाढ़ जैसी प्राकृतिक आपदा को ध्यान में रखा या नहीं, क्योंकि कई लोगों ने अपने महत्वपूर्ण दस्तावेज़ बाढ़ के चलते खो दिए, जिसके बाद उन्हें NRC के में अपनी…
30-Aug-2018
The Left-Democratic Mancha, Assam—a common platform of 11 Political Parties—and the Forum Against Citizenship Act Amendment Bill (FACAAB), a forum of informed citizens, have voiced a unanimous demand for an error free NRC. In a joint memorandum presented to the State Co-ordinator, NRC the two organisations have expressed their anguish with regard to the on-going process…
27-Aug-2018
30 जुलाई 2018 को प्रकाशित हुए राष्ट्रीय नागरिक रजिस्टर (NRC) के फाइनल ड्राफ्ट से 40,07,707 लोगों को बाहर कर दिया गया है. बाहर निकाले गए इन लोगों के लिए आख़िरी और एकमात्र उम्मीद है NRC की दावा-आपत्ति प्रक्रिया. हालांकि, ये प्रक्रिया आयोजित करने के लिए स्टैण्डर्ड ऑपरेटिंग प्रोसीजर (SOP) का जो मानक रूप 16 अगस्त 2018 को सर्वोच्च न्यायालय के समक्ष प्रस्तुत किया गया था, वो लोगों को इस परेशानी का कोई…
23-Aug-2018
आज देश भर के अखबार अक्सर एक चाय वाले के बारे में खबरें छापते हैं. कभी कभी उसी चाय वाले की वृद्ध माँ की भी तसवीरें छपतीं हैं. असम प्रदेश अपने चाय के बागानों के लिए विश्वप्रसिद्ध है. आज चलिए आपका परिचय करवाते हैं असम के एक चाय वाले की माँ से… एक ऐसी माँ…
21-Aug-2018
Seven years ago, Ainal Haq’s wife was declared a ‘foreigner’ and sent to a detention camp. Then, without her family members being informed, she was allegedly deported to Bangladesh. He hasn’t heard from her in seven years! Haq has documents to prove that she was in fact an Indian. This is how families are being…
20-Aug-2018
There is fear in the air in Banderdewa at the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border. The bogeyman of the “outsider” created in the aftermath of the saffron twist given to the NRC process, ever since the final draft was made public on July 30, 2018, has attained a darker and more disturbing hue. After the use of abusive…
18-Aug-2018
After the NRC Final draft published on July 30, 2018 left out 40,07,707 people, there only remains a last sliver of hope in the form of the Claims and Objections process. However, the draft Modalities and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for conducting the process, that were submitted before the Supreme Court on August 16, this year, appear to be less than adequate…
16-Aug-2018
The Supreme Court has asked Prateek Hajela, the State Coordinator of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, to submit a detailed report on the people who have been excluded from the draft list. The report that should include a district wise percentage of population not included in the NRC, has to be submitted before the…
13-Aug-2018
Burning the Indian Constitution is rejecting democracy and secularism which is what India stands for. An FIR has been lodged by Akhil Bhartiya Bheem Sena against the fringe groups who burned the Constitution in New Delhi on August 10th 2018. These hooligans also shouted anti-constitution, anti-Ambedkar and anti-SC/ST slogans while burning the Constitution.
11-Aug-2018
Two people have allegedly committed suicide in Assam due to the exclusion of names of their family members from the final draft of National Register of Citizens (NRC). While 70 year old Deben Barman was found hanging from a tree in Dhubri district on August 7, 44 year old Rajesh Singh was also found hanging…