Will Assam minorities be alienated from India?

The state of Assam is slightly directing the scenes of tensions and unrest as the state had been deployed with thousands of paramilitary forces along with state police today to stem tight security as the government is likely to publish the citizenship register tomorrow which had feared that it will alienate the state minorities, Muslims in particular to get deported from India by painting them as illegal immigrants.

Nearly for last four years, the minority residents in Assam have been struggling to demonstrate their identity that they belong to Assam in the judiciary after being fenced with accusations that they invaded by neighboring Bangladesh. The government has now directing the last episodes of releasing the list of final citizenship of the state through National Register of Citizens (NRC), which the state officials have said will be released tomorrow.

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Speaking about the scheduled publishing of the citizenship list, the state official had said that the state is on track to publish the final list on Saturday and in the wake of that, the government had initiated efforts to ensure that the people will find no difficulties to locate their names. It has been speculated that the release of citizenship list will oil the opportunities of protests by the minority people who are living in uncertainty as it has been said that the draft list which was released last year had left off four million people from the status of Indian citizens.

As in the drones of security after anticipated the rise of protests, the state of Assam had stationed 60,000 state police and 19,000 paramilitary forces and will remain on duty on Saturday to make sure that the state hadn't accounted for the scenes of violence. Commenting on the massive deployment in the state, the state police chief Kuladhar Saikia had said that the deployment was to enhance the security grid as the precautionary measures.

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In order to prove as Indian citizen, the government had asked the residents to place valid documents which will justify that they or their families have lived and resided in India before March 24, 1971 as in the year of 1971, the state of Assam had accounted for thousands of people who fled from Bangladesh during India's war with Pakistan which fought to liberate the territory of East Pakistan from the mainland which later named as independent Bangladesh.

Its been alleged that while drafting the citizenship list, the government had left off hundreds of thousands of people from the list who had argued that they are Indians. The government had denied the claims made by the minority and said that the people whoever doesn't been listed in the final list will be given four months period to appeal with a tribunal to justify that they belong to India.

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The government had said that, if identified as illegal immigrants, they will be locked up in detention centers before getting deported to Bangladesh wherein on the other side, Bangladesh hadn't issued any positive notion to accept the people deported from India by citing the lack of facilities in the country.

Narendra Modi led Central government has said that it could extend its citizenship exercise to other border states such as West Bengal to root out the illegal immigrants whereas the critics had said that the hunt for illegal immigrants in the state of Assam had directed towards minority Muslims.

 

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