Challenges

♤ Government has brought Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 which seeks to grant citizenship to Hindu Bangladeshis, who have entered Assam illegally post-1971. But once NRC exercise will be completed, a lot of Hindu Bangladeshi might not appear in the list, thus, will be designated as illegal migrants. Thus, it will lead to confusion and moreover harden the resolve of people not to assimilate Hindu Bangladeshi in Assam according to NRC.

♤ It could lead to exclusion and inclusion errors and large number of legitimate Indian citizens could end up being denied their rights.

♤ Assam has experienced communal tension in recent times. Exclusion of some people might raise apprehensions of exclusion of a particular community creating new fault lines leading to social unrest.

♤ Illegal migrants out of NRC will be sent back to Bangladesh, however, India does not have any deportation treaty with Bangladesh.

♤ There are apprehensions, that India will end up creating the newest cohort of stateless people, raising the spectre of a homegrown crisis that will echo that of the Rohingya people who fled Myanmar for Bangladesh.