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Kishalay Bhattacharjee
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Hindu vs Muslim, tribal vs others, Bengali vs Assamese?
My 80-year-old mother has been worried sick that I may get arrested by the Government of Assam for failing to qualify as an Indian citizen. I have been reassuring her that I live in the National Capital Region (NCR) and my inclusion or omission in the National Register of Citizens (NRC), being updated in Assam, will not affect my fundamental rights. Besides, I have sufficient documents to prove my citizenship (even though my ‘nationalism’ may not be on my sleeves). Curiously, the same ‘legacy’ document, a certificate from 1955, ensured the enlisting of names for the rest of the family but failed to prove my credentials. My mother’s fears, however, are not unfounded; since the exercise began, there have been numerous cases of people who have been picked up and jailed or sent to detention camps. The NRC is a record of ‘legitimate’ Indian citizens living in Assam and is being updated for the first time since 1951, and only in that state. The objective is to detect ‘illegal Bangladeshi immigrants’ so that they can be deported.
16 June 2018, 18:50 IST
Hindu vs Muslim, tribal vs others, Bengali vs Assamese?
16 June 2018, 18:50 IST