In 1931 , The census officer CS Mullen published a report on how the demographics of Assam or erstwhile NEFA were threatened by Bengali Muslims who were brought over by the colonial British Administration to work as labourers in tea plantations and coalmines after https://twitter.com/iishitasings/status/1290614996213198848

...lord Curzon partitioned Bengal in 1905 .

Bengali Hindus bore the larger brunt of Genocide and mass rapes in 1971.
The Bengali Hindu who immigrated to Assam escaped persecution more or less religious in nature whereas the Bengali Muslim came into India

..... For a larger plan of occupation or secessionism. ( Source- The same report posited in the first thread) . In 1998 the then Governor of Assam too published this concern .

Both of these reports have actively been cited by the Supreme Court of India.

The first NRC in Assam declared that the 80 lakh people of Assam experienced a huge influx of immigrants which still continues.

Hence , this second Supreme court mandated NRC was necessary.

Now coming upon the Assam Accord conundrum.

There are multiple push factors from Bangladesh and pull factors from India that has pandered votebank driven politics w.r.t the Bengali Muslim Immigration.

( Words Of the Supreme Court of India.)

The Assam Students Movement started in 1979 to subdue illegal migration of Bengali Muslims owing to the threat of disvowament of its. cultural identity and forced the government to undertake some measure .

Soon the government came out with a legislation known as the ILDTE act.

.... In 1983.
However a 2005 supreme court judgement highlighted that it did the exact opposite instead of facilitating the swift deportation of illegal migrants in pertinence to the foreigners act.

Under the Foreigners Act it is the duty of the person to show that he is the citizen of India but under the ILDTE act it is the government's duty to show that he is a citizen of India .

Such a quintessential and a paradoxical discourse.

Beginning 1983 , only 1000 people out of some 9600 identified were actually deported back to the parent country over a period of a staggering 15 years

The rules of the NRC are prespondent to the Citizenship Act of 2003 which articulates that NRC should be nationwide

Further more Assamese Muslims themselves are hostile towards Bengali Muslims . Source- Records recovered from the Milli Massacre period of the 80s.

In stark contrast to the Assam Accords, the majority of the exclusions are Bangladeshi Hindus who escaped persecution and not the ones who came for economic growth and seeking other opportunities or pursuing other plans.

This inevitably points out that in accordance to the Assam Accords, the structure of the NRC is flawed and that is what the present government seeks to reform.

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