NEW DELHI - India excluded 1.9 million people from its list of so-called"genuine citizens" in the northeastern state of Assam, according to results from the National Register of Citizenship. This comes as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government pushes its Hindu nationalist agenda to target so-called"illegal migrants" there.As many as four million people were at risk of losing their Indian citizenship.
Bangladesh has already said it cannot accept a sudden influx of people, while India's government cannot permanently house those declared foreigners in camps, said Prabhat Patnaik, an economist and emeritus professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. About 31 million people were found eligible in the final citizenship list released on Saturday, according to a statement from home ministry."Any person who is not satisfied with the outcome of the claims and objections can file appeal before the Foreigners Tribunals," it said."The entire process of NRC update has been meticulously carried out in an objective and transparent manner.
'LIKE TERMITES' Illegal migration has been a source of ethnic conflict and political unrest in the tea-producing state for decades. BACKLASH FEARS The developments in Assam have drawn comparisons to other countries who've acted against citizens or long-term migrant populations, such as US President Donald Trump's policy on the so-called"dreamers" brought to America illegally as children and the military attacks that led to more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee Myanmar for Bangladesh in 2017.
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