All BTC Bengali Federation Rejects NRC, Vows to Lodge FIR against Coordinator Hajela

Goreswar, September 19, 2019:

All BTC Bengali Federation has announced that it will lodge FIRs against the state coordinator of National Register of Citizens (NRC), Prateek Hajela, in all districts.

The Bengali organization has vowed to do this on behalf of the people who have been left out of the final NRC list.

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Expressing dissatisfaction over the process of the NRC, the Bengali Federation organized an awareness programme in Goreswar of Assam’s Baksa district, where hundreds of people excluded from the NRC, participated.

The Bengali Federation said that it will under no circumstances accept the NRC.

The district president of the federation, Madan Sahai threatened that the body will not cooperate with the government in legal terms and threatened to launch an agitation.

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Madan Sahai added, “The people have to go through this ordeal after being excluded from the NRC only because they belong to the Bengali community.”

He also alleged that these people have been excluded from the NRC final list due to the ignorance of the officials appointed in the NRC procedure.

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