Not interfering with NRC update process

The Assam state government yesterday denied that it was interfering with the exercise to update the draft final National Register of Citizens (NRC), which left out four million, and said it will be ensured no "foreigner" is included in it.

Assam Parliamentary Affairs Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary said in the Assembly that it will be ensured that no foreigner's name is included in the update exercise of the NRC.

He was speaking in the state assembly on behalf of the chief minister. Seeking to allay apprehensions of exclusion of people's names from the citizen's register, Patowary termed it "false".