West Bengal's Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, criticized her Assam counterpart, Himanta Biswa Sarma, for sending NRC notices to legitimate citizens of Bengal. At a rally, Banerjee highlighted the ...

Uttam, a resident of Sadialerkuthi village in Cooch Behar, was served a notice by the foreigners’ tribunal in Assam on ...

Former NRC Coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma has urged the Chief Election Commissioner to consider the NRC verification process ...

Sarma said that the NRC exercise failed in Assam because of a lack of mechanism to effectively carry it out in the border ...

A heated exchange erupted between Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee over identity politics and ...

In 2013, India’s Supreme Court ordered that an updated NRC be published in Assam, and in a judgement the following year, it observed: “The culture of an entire people is being eroded in such a ...

The Assam government has urged the Election Commission of India (ECI) to integrate the state's unique National Register of ...

Assam officials have told the Election Commission they want the National Register of Citizens (NRC) considered in the voter ...

Assam failed to do so, but by 2005, the Congress Party—the BJP’s main rivals—spoke of using a type of census known as the National Register of Citizens (NRC) to better understand who was ...

Two parallel mechanisms. The tribunals and the NRC are parallel mechanisms of detecting foreigners in Assam. The tribunals, set up under an 1964 executive order, decide on matters of nationality.

Assam's finance minister, Himanta Biswas Sarma, a vocal supporter of NRC has spewed anti-immigrant venom, and claimed in August 2018 that legacy papers—those which prove longstanding residency ...