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CITIZENSHIP VERIFICATION IN ASSAM
SC seeks ECI, Centre responses on plea against Aadhaar use beyond identity proofThe Supreme Court is examining a plea to ensure Aadhaar is used solely for identity verification. The petition argues its use for citizensh...- EC orders 'Special Revision' of voter list in Assam, final roll on Feb 10, 2026According to instructions issued by the poll panel for the chief electoral officer of Assam, January 1, 2026 will be the qualifying date fo...
- ECI may go for routine SSR in Assam, not SIR ahead of 2026 pollsThe ECI has held several rounds of internal deliberations to assess the feasibility of an SIR in Assam and to examine alternatives, ET has ...
- Polls first, SIR later: Assam government, CEO tell ECAssam's government and Chief Electoral Officer have asked the Election Commission to conduct a special revision of electoral rolls after th...
- Caught between NRC logjam and elections: Separate citizenship rules stall Assam’s SIRAssam's separate citizenship provisions have led to an incomplete National Register of Citizens (NRC), causing the state to be excluded fro...
- Ex-NRC chief proposes 'family tree' verification for Assam voter roll cleanupFormer NRC Coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma has urged the Chief Election Commissioner to consider the NRC verification process for creating a m...
- ECI & citizenship verification: Supreme Court orders dating back to 1995 drew the linesThe Election Commission of India's (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar has sparked debate over citizenship v...
- Assam: PVM unhappy over no reference to NRC in BJP’s Lok Sabha election manifestoConvenor of PVM Upamanyu Hazarika said that for a State, which is on its way to becoming a Bangladeshi origin majority State between 2040 t...
- Pros and cons of National Register of Citizens in AssamNRC enumeration has brought relief to the 95% of Muslims who made it to the citizenship list. Given the highly charged political atmosphere...
- BJP is engaged in doing politics over the National Register of Citizens and creating confusion: Assam CongressThe Assam government had sought 20% sample re-verification of names included in the draft NRC in the districts of Assam bordering Banglades...
- 19 lakh left out, final Assam NRC elicits anger & sense of betrayalThose dissatisfied believe the NRC has legitimised the existing nature of Assam’s demography, the reason why the state suffered political a...
- The man behind NRC sports a smile and stays away from media glareHajela, who hails from Madhya Pradesh, had his share of bouquets and brickbats while he led a team of 52,000 officials that sifted through ...
- Congress alleges discrepancies in National Register of CitizensThe memorandum stated the NRC process and the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 have no connection as the NRC update process flowed out of...
- Forum against infiltration to contest Lok Sabha polls in AssamHazarika said there is no party which represents the interests of indigenous people.
- Supreme Court allows use of Ration Card to file NRC claimsThe apex court also extended the time period for submitting such claims to NRC coordinator Prateek Hajela to December 15 from November.
- Supreme Court's no to government plea to extend NRC verification beyond November 23“Only one lakh of the 40 lakh excluded have so far submitted their claims,” Attorney General of India KK Venugopal told the court.
- NRC list: Family tree criteria led to 40 lakh missing names, says officialsDuring the family tree verification, all legacy data submitted by the applicants were examined to check whether they are genuine to weed ou...
- Assam citizenship database awaits order on inclusion of Bangladeshi HindusThe BJP government at the Centre recently tabled the Citizenship Bill, 2016, making nationals of various countries, including Bangladesh, e...
- Tarun Gogoi smells gains after Supreme Court relief to Bengali migrant votersCongress has got a boost after the Supreme Court relaxed the Guwahati HC's five-year voting ban on Bengali migrants from Bangladesh.
- Government plans ordinance to grant citizenship to Hindu refugees from Bangladesh, Pakistan, AfghanistanWinter session is the only window for government to bring up this issue as the verification process is long and tedious and elections are d...
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