GuwahatiJuly 16, 2025 13:25 IST
first published: July 16, 2025 13:24 IST
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said that concerns over demographic changes in Assam cannot be addressed by “legal” steps such as voter list amendment and a National Register of Citizens (NRC), emphasizing that “Swadeshi solution” is required.
As reported by Indian Express, Announced after India’s Election Commission last month Nationwide intensive amendment of electoral rolls Starting with Bihar, the Assam government requested that NRC, which has been in Limbo since 2019, should once finally be finalized as one of the acceptable documents for the head. If this request is accepted, it may effectively mean delay in the head of the state.
While NRC practice meant to address decades of demographic concerns in Assam to identify Indian citizens and separate them from illegal immigrants, the NRC published in 2019 criticized several quarters, including the Assam government. It excluded 19.6 lakh people out of 3.3 crore applicants, and the Assam government has said that it is wrong to join and exclude it. The government claims that it excludes “indigenous people” including “foreigners” in large numbers. Since 2019, it has pressurized the NRC sample re -creation.
Sarma often reflects the lack of confidence in NRC practice, and on Tuesday, he said that he does not believe that either the NRC or voter list amendment is a sufficient response to the “demographic attack”. He alleged that the middle and lower Assam, where Bengali-origin Muslims are centered, have been subjected to the “demographic attack” and that the upper Assam is in danger of similar changes.
“Demographic is a social science concept. This is not a legal concept. If you tell the court that demographic change is taking place, the court will say ‘so they are all Indians? They are all Indians … This is an attack on culture, civilization, tradition. It cannot be given in NRC and voter list. Local people will not give land, the government will not give them land, the government will not attack them on government land. Said.
He claimed that the NRC in Assam failed due to a “lack of a mechanism”, which effectively takes it out to the border districts.
“We have NRC here. We do not know what will happen here (about voter list amendment), but South Salamara-Munkar, Halakandi (district with border border of Bangladesh) does not have to identify their foreigners (to identify foreigners). Our problems need a kind of solution. Can they be invited to their own relatives in the village foreigners;
Citing an example of Uriyamghat in Golaghat district of Upper Assam, he has alleged that Middle-origin is looking at Bengali-origin Muslims from Assam, he said, “The answer to demographic attack may not be NRC as they have voter list, AADhar cards, Lahorighet. Voter list at Uriyamghat.
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