Guwahati, Aug. 7 (IANS): The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) leaders have urged the state coordinator for National Register of Citizens (NRC), Prateek Hajela, to ensure that not a single foreigner’s name is included in the final NRC, said AGP chief Atul Bora on Monday.
Addressing the media, Bora said that only an error-free NRC can safeguard the indigenous people of the state.
“We are going to oppose any move which is inimical to the interest of the people of Assam. We are not going to accept any move which helps settlement of the illegal foreigners in Assam at any cost,” said the AGP president, who is a Minister in the Cabinet of Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal.
“The Centre has been trying to bring in certain things which go against the Assam Accord and NRC. The soul of NRC must be protected,” he added. Some government officials have, on record, admitted that the NRC included names of declared foreigners in different places while it had excluded several members of tribal communities, who, are the sons of soils here.
The draft NRC published on July 30 included the names of over 2.89 crore people of the state but left 40 lakh people out of the document for some discrepancies.
