NRC is base document for future: CJI Gogoi

Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi, on Sunday inaugurated senior journalist Mrinal Talukdar's book Post Colonial Assam (1947 to 2019) at an event held in India International Centre (IIC) in New Delhi. Releasing the book, the CJI termed NRC to be the base document for the future.

"This is an occasion to put things in properperspective, NRC, as it may finally emerge, is not a document of the moment. It'snot about 19 lakhs or 40 lakhs. It's a base document for the future," the CJIsaid.

CJI Ranjan Gogoi at launch of book 'Post Colonial Assam': This is an occasion to put things in proper perspective, National Register of Citizens (NRC), as it may finally emerge, is not a document of the moment. 19 lakhs or 40 lakhs is not the point. It's base document for future. pic.twitter.com/CdcLbctxyV

— ANI (@ANI) November 3, 2019

CJI Gogoi hailing NRC said, "There was an urgent needto identify illegal migrants in Assam, which is what the current exercise ofNRC had attempted, nothing more nothing less."

CJI Ranjan Gogoi: Irresponsible reporting by a few media outlets only worsened the situation. There was an urgent need to ascertain with some degree of certainty the number of illegal migrants, which is what the current exercise of NRC had attempted, nothing more nothing less. https://t.co/FlMUdOyEu9 pic.twitter.com/eFuc3Swvb9

— ANI (@ANI) November 3, 2019

He also criticised those, who raised questions on the NRC process and termed them as "armchair commentators". "Assam people are victims of armchair commentators where due process was questioned and challenges are thrown at the attempt of the democratic process," the CJI maintained.

However, the CJI accepted that there were someproblems in the implementation of the NRC.