GUWAHATI, Dec 1 � Many prominent intellectuals of the State have criticised the move of the Government to update the NRC of the State, calling it an anti-Constitutional action.
�In the name of updating the NRC, it is a ploy to provide Indian citizenship to several lakh illegal migrants who entered the State from 1951 to 1971,� a joint statement released by the intellectuals stated.
�The Government is violating the Clause VI of second part of the Constitution. It is a well-planned strategy designed through amending the Citizenship Act of 1955 in 1985, 1986 and 2003 to provide citizenship to foreign nationals,� said noted journalist Dhirendra Nath Bezboruah, educationists Bisweswar Hazarika and Dr Satyendra Narayan Goswami, former DIG Hiranya Kumar Bhattacharyya, among others, through the statement.
