50 persons of a single family not listed in Assam NRC

The list excluded 19 lakh people.

A 52-year-old Ahmad Hussain,  a primary school teacher and his entire family members, including at least 15 children, were left out from the final NRC list.

Ahmad Hussain and his family members, including 7 brothers, are living at Nichanchar village under Baghbor assembly constituency in Assam’s Barpeta district.

Interestingly, the entire family, excluding a brother of Ahmad Hussain, was included in the earlier draft NRC list, but they were left out from the final NRC.

The excluded person from the earlier draft NRC was Abdul Baten – one brother of Ahmad Hussain.

When the NRC authority served hearing notice to Abdul Baten, he had used 1966 legacy data of late Harmuj Ali Bhuyan.

Ahmad Hussain doubted that the difference of the legacy data of 1951 and 1966 is the main reason for it.

The entire family is now worried after their names were not listed in the final NRC list.

“We have found that, not a single member of our family listed in the final NRC which was published yesterday. There are 50 members in our family. We had used our father’s legacy data of 1951. Our family members name were listed in the earlier draft NRC, but one of brother’s name was not included. When he applied second time, he used 1966 legacy data. For it, we were served several notices. We had appeared in hearings four times. But our names were not listed in the final NRC. We are now frustrated. We are worried about it. We will apply again following the government instructions,” Ahmad Hussain said.

(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)