11-Sep-2018
Binoy Chanda, the only earning member of his family, became the 28th suicide victim in Assam since the BJP came to power in May 2016 due to the ‘D’ Voter issue. The poor youth of Dimlapar village under the Tamulpur Police Station in the Baksa district committed suicide late at night on Sunday, September 9,…
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…
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
In a damning indictment of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) authority’s data privacy maintenance methods, a document containing district wise percentage of people excluded from the NRC, information that was to be submitted by the NRC State Coordinator to the Supreme Court in a sealed envelop on or before August 25, has now been leaked to…
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…
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…