19 lakh left out, final Assam NRC elicits anger & sense of betrayal

Assam’s NRC updation process rejected the citizenship claims of a little over 19 lakh people out of the total 40.7 lakh who had not found a place in last year’s draft NRC. The low percentage of exclusion in the Bengali-speaking Muslim migrant majority districts, particularly those bordering Bangladesh, has given rise to a belief among some that most illegal migrants have made it into the NRC.

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