Tag: NRC
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India’s migration politics will topple Bangladesh’s Sheikh Hasina
ndia’s migration politics — an assertion that there are 40 million Bangladeshi migrants illegally living in India and that they must be pushed back — will morph into an explosive crisis in South Asia and destabilize the region. This is how things will unravel: India’s plan to round up suspected millions of illegal migrants and…
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NRC spoils puja for many in Bengal; urban poor too live in fear
Kolkata: There is no festivity in the Middye household in a village in Falta, around 45 km from the city. The children in the house are seeing their first Durga Puja without their father. Kalachand Middye killed himself last month fearing that he would fail the National Register of Citizens (NRC) test. He knew that…
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Mamata failing to contain fear psychosis of voters in Bengal?
Kolkata: Following the recent 11 unnatural deaths in West Bengal, which has been claimed by many including Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as deaths caused by National Register of Citizenship (NRC) fear, made her issue a series of advertisements on various media platforms. But her efforts aren’t being able to soothe the jittery nerves of voters…
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West Bengal’s ‘Active’ governor does not meet Anti-NRC delegation
Kolkata: At least 11 individuals have died allegedly by panic triggered by various statements, news, rumours among others being circulated about National Register for Citizens (NRC) in West Bengal. But, when a forum which held a march against NRC tried to give a memorandum to the newly appointed Governor, Jagdeep Dhankhar, neither did the governor…
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From labours constructing detention centers to Army man serving at border all face the wrath of NRC Assam process
Delhi: Forty-nine-year-old Pradip Kumar Saha, from Assam’s Ranopatti, cast his vote in the 1989 General Elections, but in 2002 he got listed as a D Voter. Despite having approached the Foreign Tribunal (FT) and providing all the necessary documents, his name has not made it to the National Register of Citizens (NRC) released recently in…
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To NRC or Not: West Bengal Resolution against NRC builds up political steam in the state
Kolkata: On September 7 West Bengal became the first Indian state to officially protest against the National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise in Assam, which has left out over 19 lakh individuals in its final list. After passing the resolution, which was supported by both the Left and Congress, the ruling party even ruled out…
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Bring Resolution in West Bengal Assembly to stall NRC process in Bengal demands Anti-NRC forum
Kolkata: After the final list of National Register for Citizen (NRC) in Assam was released on Saturday the first protest against it took place in Kolkata in front of Assam House where members of Joint Forum Against NRC (JFANRC) demonstrated and demanded that no NRC process be initiated in Bengal and the rest of India.…
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Kolkata’s First NRC Victim to Walk Out ‘Stateless’ of Detention Camp in 2020
Kolkata/Guwahati: Fifty-year-old Asgar Ali, a carpenter by profession, will be reuniting with his family in 2020 after completing his three-year-detention in Goalpara detention centre, Assam. But this time when he will meet his family, he will be “stateless”. Asgar, a Kolkata-born carpenter who was eking out a living in Assam, got listed in the D-Voters…
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Crowdfunding for Hindu Bengalis left out in NRC draft, people react in shock
Kolkata: Much before the publication of the final draft of National Register of Citizen (NRC) in Assam, a former leader of Hindu Samhati, a far-right organization operating out of West Bengal, kick-started an online campaign on crowdfunding site Milaap. The online campaign titled, “Help Hindu Bengalis in Assam to save them from becoming refugee again”…
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‘Under supervision of Supreme Court’ does not always mean fair play
Home Minister Rajnath Singh has tried to convince the people that the government has no role to play in the finalisation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam and that the whole process has been completed– under the supervision of the Supreme Court. Publication of NRC on July 30 created turmoil inside Parliament…