Kokrajhar District Congress Committee urges NRC authority to stop objection in the ongoing final hearing of inclusion of names

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KOKRAJHAR: The District Congress Committee (DCC), Kokrajhar district committee on Wednesday alleged that there had been harassment in the name of objection hearing in the ongoing final hearing of inclusion of names.

The DCC reiterated that the objection hearing was in violation of guidelines and demanded to stop the objection process. At a press meet held at Kokrajhar, the president of Kokrajhar district Congress Committee, Bimal Mandal and member of Assam Pradesh Congress Committee, Sambhu Mandal said the people belonging to linguistic and religious minority communities were fully cooperating in the NRC process but were facing harassment in the scrutiny and verification of documents submitted in their claim for entering their names in the NRC. They said that after perusing all papers and documents, the NRC authority had published the draft NRC list. Now surprisingly, the NRC authority is illegally and arbitrarily harassing the linguistic minority community on the pretext of baseless complains and objections of some fictitious persons and again issued notice to them to re-appear and face trial/hearing before the respective District Registrar of Citizen Registration (DRCR) office, said the Congress leaders.

The leaders said that vague and false objections had no basis. “There is no mention of any details of the people who are objecting and there is no mention of ARN number and detail address of the person who objects, whether he is citizen of India or foreigner. Besides, there is no mention regarding the objector’s locus-standi in filling the alleged objection against the persons whose names have appeared in the NRC draft already published,” they said. They further alleged that the notice issued by the DRCR was clear violation of fundamental rights of those against whom these notices had been issued.

The DCC urged the NRC State coordinator Prateek Hajela to stop the process of objection hearing as early as possible and requested him to reject all the objection notices to linguistic and religious minority community people.

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