NEW DELHI, March 20 -- The US State Department has taken a hard look at the BJP-led NDA government over the ongoing National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise alleging that it has led to uncertain future of four million people.
In its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2018, the US State Department has said that on July 31, the Government of Assam published the final draft of the NRC, a document intended to define individuals with a claim to citizenship in a state that experienced an influx of foreigners in 1971.
In 1985 the government declared that anyone who entered Assam without proper documentation after March 24, 1971, would be declared a foreigner. The names of four million residents were excluded from the final draft ...