Guwahati, May 17 -- Anti-influx body, Prabajan Virodhi Manch (PVM) convenor and Supreme Court lawyer Upamanyu Hazarika on Friday said the safeguard of indigenous Assamese people which could have been possible only by NRC re-verification and legal safeguards reserving land resources etc. have become prey to the personal ambitions of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.

"It is a tragedy for the country and particularly the people of Assam that their identity and majority status which could have been safeguarded only by NRC re-verification and legal safeguards reserving land resources etc. for them have become prey to the personal ambitions of Sarma," Hazarika said referring to the statement of the chief minister made on Bangladeshi in...