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AGP moves PC on NRC update

By Spl correspondent

NEW DELHI, July 25 � Opposing suspension of the pilot project on updating of National Register of Indian Citizens, Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) has sought the intervention of Union Home Minister, P Chidambaram to ensure continuance of the process.

In a letter to the Union Home Minister, AGP Rajya Sabha MP Kumar Deepak Das urged Chidambaram to look into the matter personally so that the process of NRC is not suspended under any circumstances.

The process should be resumed immediately and the job should be on, he suggested.

The AGP MP also urged the Home Minister to ensure deployment of adequate security forces for the security of the indigenous people of the area and payment of adequate compensation to the deceased, as well as the injured apart from to the owners of the damaged properties.

Even after completion of 25 years of Assam Accord, the decision to update the NRC was taken up only in May, 2005. The pilot project was started in the month of June at Barpeta and Chaygaon revenue circles. But the Government of Assam bowed to the violent movement by one organisation to suspend the process of updating the NRIC, he said.

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