- Friday, April 19, 2024
By: Sarwar Alam
More than four million people left off a draft list of citizens in northeast India on Monday have effectively been made stateless, campaigners said, likening them to the Rohingya minority driven out of Myanmar. Fear gripped the border state of Assam as India‘s census chief released the list of citizens in the state, which excluded those unable to prove they or their parents arrived before March 1971 when neighbouring Bangladesh was created. Assam lies on the border with Muslim-majority Bangladesh and is in the grip of social and communal tension as residents campaign against illegal immigrants, a fight backed by prime minister Narendra…
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