SHILLONG: Phulbari MLA SG Esmatur Momin while expressing concern over the non inclusion of several women from Meghalaya in the NRC final list has asked the Chief Minister to urge the Assam Government to setup a single Foreigner’s Tribunal designated only for the applicants of Meghalaya for hearing.
With over thousand tribal and non-tribal Meghalaya women married in Assam excluded from the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) Mominin said that Meghalaya Government should provide all help to these women by deputing special offices and legal experts.
In a letter =to the Chief Minister, Mominin suggested that the state government should also ask the Assam government to submit the list of the Meghalaya women who submitted the NRC documents verified by the state government and let them withdraw their names so that Meghalaya can update their names when NRC will be updated in Meghalaya.
Mominin suggested that Meghalaya government could also file an affidavit in the Supreme Court as NRC was updated under the supervision of the Apex court to grant a special hearing for these women from Meghalaya and give specific directives to NRC authority to include their names based on the documents issued and verified by Meghalaya government.
Lamenting that the these bonafide citizens who were born and brought up in Meghalaya but married in Assam are overnight deemed as stateless people despite them submitting all the documents verified by the Meghalaya government, he added that there are high possibilities that these women would be declared as foreigners and sent to detention camps”.