Grave injustice to exclude people from NRC: Ripun Bora

APCC President Ripun Bora termed the exclusion of people from NRC as 'injustice'. Letters of information containing the reason for exclusion is being sent to the excluded persons at their residential address.

New Delhi: Assam Pradesh Congress Committee president Ripun Bora (APCC) on Thursday claimed that exclusion of more than one lakh people from the draft National Register of Citizen (NRC) is a "gross injustice" to the people of Assam.

Ahead of the July deadline, Assam government had published a list of names of over one lakh people, who have been excluded from the draft National Register of Citizens published last year.

Ripun Bora termed the exclusion as unfortunate.

"Name of these one lakh people were earlier included in the draft NRC and now from their names have been dropped," Bora said.

The persons named in the exclusion list are the persons or whose descendants were found to be Declared Foreigner (DF) or Doubtful Voter (DV) or whose cases were pending at Foreigners Tribunals after publishing of draft NRC.

The list also includes names of people who were found ineligible while appearing as witnesses in hearings held for disposal of claims and objections.

"We will definitely raise the issue in Parliament. Not a single Indian citizen should be left out," Bora said.

The final National Register of Citizens will be published on 31st July 2019.