He further slammed the saffron party for attempting to "hoodwink" the people following National Register of Citizens publication.
Observing that the final NRC list, which validates bona fide Indian citizens of Assam, has excluded 19 lakh residents, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom on Friday said that a number of domestic and international organisations have expressed concern that the NRC is a "targeted mechanism to disenfranchise Assam's Bengali Muslim community, implicitly establishing a religious requirement for citizenship and potentially rendering large numbers of Muslims stateless."
To facilitate the appeals, 200 new FTs will be functional from Monday, in addition to 100 already existing.
In a series of tweets, the senior leader of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party also alleged that the legacy data were manipulated for including names of doubtful persons as alleged by many.
Religare Enterprises, a financial services firm, has disclosed that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) turned down its application to appoint Rakesh Asthana as its whole-time director in May this year without citing any reasons. Asthana is a former top official of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). In a notice to the stock exchanges, Religare said that while the company and Asthana were weighing the options of dealing with the letter of refusal by the RBI, it was also busy in preparing for the "herculean task" of making ready multiple applications to regulators.
'The Modi government thinks that once the CAA protests are over, they will bring in the NPR that will help to get the NRC.'
It also promised to launch the 'Poshane' scheme through which every BPL household will be provided with half litre 'Nandini' milk every day and five kg 'Shri Anna - siri dhanya' through monthly ration kits.
The former home minister also said that the "highest quarters (in government) don't inspire trust".
The draft published on July 30, 2018 included the names of 2.9 crore people out of total applications of 3.29 crore.
Banerjee claimed that some people will try to "engineer riots" during elections and urged everyone "not to fall prey to the plot".
The CAA does not change basic structure of Constitution, MEA spokesperson said at a media briefing.
The final NRC, unique to Assam, will be published on August 31.
Kishor has been critical of the citizenship law since its introduction even though his party supported in the Parliament.
He made the remarks on the floor of the state assembly while thanking the House members for unanimously approving a constitutional amendment for extending quotas to SCs and STs by another 10 years.
The state police on Thursday appealed to the people not to believe in rumours as some elements are trying to create confusion.
The HMO said it will amend the rules to increase the time limit of filing of appeals in foreigners tribunals from 60 to 120 days for those who would be excluded from the final NRC.
Out of 3.3 crore applicants, over 19 lakh people were excluded from the final NRC published on Saturday.
The groom was among the 40 lakh people whose name was ommitted from the draft citizens register which was published in July last year.
Shah said that the NPR will not affect the nationality status of any citizen of the country.
On compilation of six crucial documents, it was found that around two lakh of them from one crore were forged.
A total of 3,30,27,661 people had applied to be included in the NRC. Of them, 3,11,21,004 have been included in the document and 19,06,657 excluded.
The top court also said that the upcoming general election and exercise of NRC should not be affected, and asked the competent authorities to sit together to plan them.
The Centre has not taken any decision on the roll-out of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) for the whole country, the Ministry of Home Affairs has told a parliamentary panel.
Reiterating that the July 31 deadline for the completion of NRC exercise will not be extended, a bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said the Centre is not cooperating in the NRC process and it seems the entire effort of the MHA is to destroy the NRC process.
"I am a son of Assam and if a single person who has not applied for NRC in the state gets citizenship, I will be the first to resign," the chief minister said on the sidelines of a programme at Sivasagar.
'Most Assamese don't understand a word like ghuspethiya and its insulting connotation.'
The govt asserted the Centre has no role in the preparation of the draft list.
As of now, just about 10 lakh people, out of the total 40 lakh, who were excluded in the draft of the NRC have submitted applications for inclusion of their names in the list of Assam's citizens.
The publishing of the NRC will not rid India from illegal immigrants who are already here. But even if it manages to withhold their political and voting rights, it will be a significant achievement, says Anand Kumar.
In a notification, the Registrar General of India said the decision has been taken as the exercise to enumerate citizens in the NRC, a list of Assam's residents, could not be completed within the specified date of June 30.
Sonowal assured people that the state government will provide legal aid to poor people in their fight against exclusion from the NRC so that they can pursue their cases in foreigners tribunals and in higher courts.
The NRC will include the names of all Indian citizens who have been residing in Assam before March 25, 1971.
Besides, less than 200 applications have been received by the authorities challenging the inclusion of the names of suspected illegal immigrants in the NRC, a list of Assam's residents, two months after a window was opened for claims and objections.
Trinamool leaders have claimed the NRC process and subsequent verification is vote bank politics. Other critics call it as modified ethnic cleansing. But putting poll rhetoric aside, the issue dates back to a time when many of these leaders had no political relevance.
The SC sought the Centre's response on the suggestion that any one of the 10 documents can be used by claimants to prove legacy.
If someone is dissatisfied, he or she can always go to a foreigners' tribunal in the state to get justice, an official said.
He, however, asserted that all infiltrators will be thrown out of the country.
It also directed the Centre to formulate standard operating procedure (SOP) to deal with claims and objections.
It also made clear that the deadline for verifying the claims for inclusion in the NRC would be now February 15, 2019 instead of February 1.
The JD-U leader has been critical of his party's decision to support the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in Parliament, and it has now become a law following its passage in both Houses.
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