Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said the updating of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the State should be done afresh.
He also said the exercise conducted over five years earlier should be reviewed for errors.
The NRC for Assam was first published in 1951. The process to update it under the supervision of the Supreme Court began in October 2013 with March 24, 1971 as the cut-off date for detecting “foreigners”. The updated list of citizens published in August 2019 had excluded 19.06 lakh people out of 3.3 crore applicants.
