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Fresh 'onslaught' on Bengali migrants: Another 1 lakh declared foreigners in Assam

By A Representative
A whopping additional 1,02,462 people have been excluded from the National Register of Citizens (NRC), released on June 26. Explaining the exclusion, the NRC authority said, “The persons whose names appear in the Additional Draft Exclusion list are those persons whose names were included in the draft NRC published on July 30, 2018, but have been subsequently found ineligible."
The reasons, according to NCR, are, (1) they were found to be "Declared Foreigner (DF) or Doubtful Voter(DV) or persons with cases pending at Foreigners Tribunals (PFT), or (2) they were found to be "ineligible while appearing as witnesses in hearings held for disposal of Claims and Objections", or (3) they were found to be ineligible "during the process of verification carried out by the Local Registrars of Citizen Registration."
The human rights site, Sabrang India regrets, many of the additional people excluded are over and above the names appearing in the NRC final draft, released on July 30, 2018, in which a whopping 40,07,707 people were left out.
"Many of them were Bengali Hindus, working class Muslims, Koch Rajbonshis and Gorkhas. Over 55 percent were women and children", it said, adding, "A fresh set of formalities will now need to be completed and many are viewing this as a fresh bid to target and harass people who are perceived to be ‘outsiders’ or ‘foreigners’."

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