AMN / Guwahati
AIUDF has thanked Supreme Court for taking the initiative to ascertain genuine citizens in Assam.The foreigners issue in the state has been festering for the last 40 years but no Govt was willing to resolve it. It was the Supreme Court which took initiative of NRC updation to ascertain the genuine citizens, AIUDF spokesman and MLA Aminul Islam said.
Till now all Muslims in Assam were wrongly referred to as Bangladeshis. “But at least NRC has helped to establish who is an Indian or a foreigner,” he said.”It will be premature to say whether we are satisfied or dissatisfied with the final NRC, but it is a step towards resolving foreigners’ issue in Assam and this has been possible only due to the initiative of the SC,” he said.
AIDUF earlier alleged that some officers associated with NRC have been given verbal orders by different quarters to include names of people belonging to a particular religion and delete those belonging to another.