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Rights group terms it largest incident of making people ‘stateless’ in decades

The HinduPublished on 31 August 2019SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT A New Delhi-based rights group has termed the exclusion of 19,06,657 people from the Assam National Register of Citizens (NRC) as the largest incident of making people “stateless” in decades. Sri Lanka’s 1948 declaration of about 9,75,000 descendants of Indian-origin Tamils as ‘non-nationals is the next largest purging move’, the […]

Citizenship Project: BJP’s Dangerous Game?, NDTV

NDTV PUBLISHED ON: AUGUST 1, 2019 Unsatisfied with the number of inclusions in the current NRC draft list, the BJP government in Assam has released sensitive data, submitted to the Supreme Court in a sealed cover, in the state Assembly. The BJP government argues that the NRC process has been too lenient and more people […]

Citizenship Amendment Act is unconstitutional, may sow seeds of ethno-nationalism in North East, says prominent analyst Suhas Chakma

Firstpost As the new year approaches, the country continues to witness large-scale protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens. Suhas Chakma, Director of the Rights and Risks Analysis Group, spoke on these issues in detail in an interview with Firstpost. He fears that the Indian government has planted the seeds […]