{"id":12709,"date":"2018-01-02T03:19:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T03:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=12709"},"modified":"2018-01-02T03:19:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T03:19:57","slug":"13-million-left-off-indias-register-of-citizens-in-assam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/13-million-left-off-indias-register-of-citizens-in-assam\/","title":{"rendered":"13 million left off India\u2019s register of citizens in Assam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p>India\u2019s state of Assam has released a draft list of legal citizens living in the northeastern state amid widespread criticism from some 13 million people who have yet to be registered by the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The list issued on Monday with the aim of curbing illegal immigration included only 19 million of Assam\u2019s more than 32 million residents, with many from the state\u2019s Muslim minority community effectively excluded.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have sought to ease public concerns about the draft, which has been prepared upon an order by the Supreme Court, as it struggles to cope with piles of citizenship applications from undocumented residents of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, from the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said Sunday that every \u201c<em>bona fide Indian citizen<\/em>\u201d would eventually be included in the list. Security was tight around the state before the release of the list as communal violence had been anticipated.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20180101\/26336c48-54c8-4ddf-92fb-344b5bc0954f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" \/><figcaption>People stand in line to check their names on the first draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) at Gumi village of Kamrup district in the Indian state of Assam on January 1, 2018. (Photo by AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Assam is the only state in India to prepare such a list and that comes against the backdrop of promises by the BJP in the 2016 state elections to root out illegal immigrants. That promise came allegedly to protect the rights of indigenous residents who accuse Muslims of illegally entering India from mainly Muslim Bangladesh and taking land.<\/p>\n<p>However, the pledge by the BJP may face stiff opposition from Bangladesh as authorities in the country have shown little sign they might accept ineligible citizens.<\/p>\n<p>To be eligible for citizenship in Assam, anyone living in the state should prove that their ancestors\u2019 names were either on a previous list compiled in 1951 or on any electoral roll published before March 1971.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/wilayahinfoen\">https:\/\/t.me\/wilayahinfoen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s state of Assam has released a draft list of legal citizens living in the northeastern state amid widespread criticism from some 13 million people who have yet to be registered by the authorities. The list issued on Monday with the aim of curbing illegal immigration included only 19 million of Assam\u2019s more than 32 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12711,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12709\/revisions\/12711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}