Assam Public Work president Abhijit Sarma favours clean chit for NRC objectors

Absence of objectors in NRC hearing

Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI: APW (Assam Public Work) president Abhijit Sarma has said that in events of objectors not attending NRC hearing of objections, the person/persons against whom objections filed should be given clean chit.

Talking to the media in Guwahati on Friday, Sarma said that a section of people in Assam wants to keep the issues of NRC (National Register of Citizens) and Bangladeshis alive. “Any solution to the problem of Bangladeshis in the State will block this section’s sources of income,” the APW president said, and added: “Objections against inclusion of names in the complete draft NRC were registered in a rampant way with a view to preventing the problem from being solved. Clad in a lungi and a skull cap doesn’t make one a Bangladeshi, nor does being a Muslim do.”

The APW is the main petitioner in the case regarding the NRC in the Supreme Court of India.

On the grenade attack by the ULFA in Guwahati, the APW president said: “A person is burning Assam. The services of the surrendered ULFA members should be used to stop fresh recruitment to the outfit. The government should shield the State from the ULFA.”

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