GUWAHATI, June 24 � The All Assam Students� Union (AASU) today sharply reacted to the demand raised by the Jamiat Ulema�e-Hind president Arshad Madani for keeping in abeyance the updating of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Chaygaon and Barpeta Revenue Circles. The NRC is being updated in the two revenue circles under a pilot project. The students� body also warned the Jamiat president not to hamper the updating of the document.
Meanwhile, the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) has reiterated its demand to keep in abeyance the process of implementing the NRC updating pilot project in Barpeta and Chaygaon.
In a statement here, the students� body said that it would be wiser on the part of the Jamiat president if he allows the document to be updated as per the provisions of the Assam Accord for a permanent solution to the vexed foreigners� issue. For the purpose, the Jamiat president should give up his role of protector of the illegal Bangla migrants, the students� body said.
The completion of the NRC updating process will bring an end to all the manouvres so far carried on by the Government and the political parties on communal and linguistic lines. The AASU has been insisting on updating the NRC constantly and this has resulted in the initiation of the Barpeta and Chaygaon pilot projects.
The Jamiat president has been throwing spanner on the way of a permanent solution to the foreign nationals� issue. For, it does not want the foreign nationals� issue to be solved on the basis of the Assam Accord, alleged the students� body.
The students� body made an appeal to all concerned to extend their full cooperation to the bid to update the NRC giving up all sorts of prejudice.
Contrary to the AASU stand on the issue, the AIUDF has stated in a statement that a delegation of its leaders, led by its president Maulana Badruddin Ajmal, MP, placed a demand before Governor J B Patnaik to keep in abeyance the implementation of the pilot project on the NRC updating process in Barpeta and Chaygaon Revenue Circles. The party submitted another memorandum with the same demand to the State�s Principal Secretary, Home also.
In its memorandums, the party alleged that the copies of the 1951 NRC and voters� lists of 1961 and 1971 published by the Deputy Commissioner of Barpeta district contain a number of anomalies in matters of the identity of a huge number of people. Cases are there in which the female surnames are affixed to the names of the male persons.
Moreover, of the 146 revenue villages of Barpeta Revenue Circle, no information is available on the people of 23 revenue villages in the reprinted 1951 NRC. The DC�s office does not have any copy of the 1966 voters� list for 11 villages, and the copies of the 1971 voters� list for 12 villages of the revenue circle, said the party.
Besides, though many people have the copies of the certified NRC issued by the Superintendent of Police from time to time, their names have failed to appear in the reprinted NRC published by the Deputy Commissioner, alleged the party.
Officially it is stated that some of the deletions could occur due to the damage caused to the document by white ant, the party said.
Hence the implementation of the pilot project should be resumed only after removing all such anomalies and a convincing answer from the Deputy Commissioner on his stand on the names deleted from the re-printed NRC, said the party.
