GUWAHATI, India: A controversial citizenship list in northeast India that has left almost 2 million people facing statelessness has been slammed by its political backers as those excluded from it face an uncertain future.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which runs Assam state where the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was collated, pushed for the list, saying it was necessary to detect “foreign infiltrators”.
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