Aasu slams Centre, state, will move SC to fix 'errors'
"Ever since the Assam agitation, successive governments at the Centre and the state have failed to flush out illegal migrants. Aasu is not happy as the number of NRC rejects fell short of the number of illegal migrants revealed by the government. Central and state governments have not taken effective steps to make the NRC error-free," said Aasu chief adviser Samujjal Bhattacharyya. The students' body has been demanding an updated NRC since 1980. Although they have never furnished the actual number of illegal migrants in Assam, Aasu has always said the number of Bangladeshis in Assam is much more than the 40 lakh people who were excluded from the draft NRC published last year.
Aasu president Dipanka Kumar Nath claimed the state government and the Centre had enough scope to find out the illegal immigrants but they failed because of their inaction. "We wanted only 10 documents to be accepted for claiming inclusion in the NRC but the government allowed 15. Also, the government did not file objections against suspected illegal Bangladeshis.".
Assam Public Works (APW), the original petitioner in the SC, said the final NRC turned out to be a "flawed document" because its prayer for re-verification of the draft list was rejected by the apex court.
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