NRC:Ex- CM Tarun Gogoi To File Petition in SC

Former Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday said that lakhs of people who have been excluded from NRC are in uncertainty and that it is not necessary for them to go to Foreigners' Tribunal.

Addressing a press conference here in Guwahati, Gogoi announced that hewill file a petition to the Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi in the SupremeCourt against NRC seeking to examine the NRC whether it is correct or not.

Gogoi said that all classes of people have to go for protest after thepublication of the final NRC. He also said that the left out people don't haveto go to Foreigners' Tribunals saying that the home ministry itself said thatthey are not foreigners. Then where is the necessity for them to go toforeigners' tribunals.

Gogoi further raised the question that will the people who are responsible for the exclusion of genuine Indian citizens' from the NRC will be punished or not. He said that the Assam Accord has given the citizenship to the refugees since 1971 saying that his words have always been misunderstood.

He further stated that the voter list of 2019 have been prepared basedon the voter list of 1966 and this is also legacy.

Gogoi also reiterated that union Home Minister Amit Shah has raised hisvoice after the draft NRC was published but why is he silent now? He furthersaid that the Minister of Foreign Affairs has said that the NRC is clean anderror-free adding that he wants to ask how it can be a fair NRC when so manyIndian citizens name have been excluded from it.