1985 Assam Accord

'Assam's burden is our burden,' says Rajnath Singh as Citizenship Amendment Bill is passed in Lok Sabha amid protests

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh moved the the Citizenship Bill, 2019, in the Lok Sabha amid protests inside the House and in the northeast.

'NRC will weed out Jinnahs living in Assam': BJP's Himanta Biswa Sarma lauds Narendra Modi for protecting indigenous people of state

Sarma also urged the AASU, which has been demanding to detect and deport illegal Hindu Bangladeshis from Assam for long, to come forward and speak for the interest of the greater Assamese community.

Of no fixed abode: Named in first NRC, missing in final draft, former MLA claims he was left out 'intentionally'

Two-time MLA Ataur Rahman Mazarbhuiya, whose name has gone missing from the final draft of the NRC, caims RSS pressurised NRC co-ordinator Prateek Hajela to come up with new rules which would help exclude more Muslims

Delinking Aadhaar, voter roll from NRC negates intent, turns Rs 1,200-crore exercise into pointless endeavour

If the government’s proposed move to delink the voter roll and Aadhaar from the NRC comes to fruition, it would be a frontal negation of the NRC’s own intent and a gross misspending of taxpayers' money

After uproar over Assam NRC in Rajya Sabha, Amit Shah asks Congress if it wants to save 'illegal Bangladeshis'

BJP President Amit Shah on Tuesday hit out at the erstwhile UPA governments charging the Congress with not having the courage to identify illegal migrants in Assam, an exercise which was to be conducted as part of the accord signed by former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1985

Assam NRC quandary: SC says claims of left out persons to be included in subsequent list if found genuine

Supreme Court on Friday said that claims of those citizens, whose names do not figure in the draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) for Assam to be published by 31 December, would be scrutinised and included in the subsequent list if found genuine

Rajnath Singh assures AASU of no dilution in Assam Accord, mulls second line of defence along Indo-Bangla border

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday said the spirit of the 1985 Assam Accord won't be allowed to get diluted and the central government will do everything to protect the state's indigenous people by completely sealing the Indo-Bangla border.