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"Tribal communities on verge of extinction": Nishikant Dubey flags declini
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
According to Dubey, the tribal population in the region has dropped significantly, from 45% in 1951 to 27% in 2011, and is expected to further decline to around 21-22% in the upcoming census.
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"Labelling all Bengali-speaking as Bangladeshis is inhumane": Trinamool's
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Kunal Ghosh on Saturday criticised the Centre, saying it is wrong and inhumane to label all Bengali-speaking people as Bangladeshis. He said many Indian citizens speak Bengali and live across different states, and questioned how poor people coul
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Bihar Polls : Owaisi criticises ECI over voter list revision; rules out jo
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday questioned the authority of the Election Commission of India to determine citizenship of Indian nationals, accusing them of doing "NRC through back door" over the poll-body's decision to Special Intensive
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"NRC through back door...": AIMIM chief Owaisi slams EC over SIR in Bihar
Updated : 8 months, 1 week ago IST
Supreme Court on July 10 allowed ECI to continue Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls while advising them to consider allowing Aadhaar, ration cards, and electoral photo identity cards as admissible documents to prove voter identity.
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"Another way to get back NRC": Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on revision of e
Updated : 8 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Sibal further alleged a "partnership" between the Election Commission of India and the BJP, claiming that in Maharashtra, the votes were increased, whereas in Bihar, they will decrease.
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"Vote theft, backdoor NRC": Oppn holds 'Bihar Bandh' against voter list re
Updated : 8 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The INDIA bloc on Wednesday held a massive Bihar Bandh rally in Patna against electoral roll revision in the poll-bound state, where Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi alleged that the pattern of electoral manipulation seen in Maharashtra could be repeated in Bihar. Rashtriya
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Owaisi labels revision of voter list in Bihar as "backdoor NRC"
Updated : 8 months, 2 weeks ago IST
"The Bihar backdoor NRC serves two clear purposes: it disempowers the poorest people of Bihar and paves the way for their exclusion from citizenship. In this country, voting is the only real power the poor have. That right cannot be snatched away just because someone doesn't have a specif
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"BJP laid red carpet for Bengali Hindus from Bangladesh": AIUDF MLA Rafiqu
Updated : 8 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Rafiqul Islam told ANI, "There is not a single Muslim who is a foreigner in Assam. Muslims have documents in their hands. They have complete records. Their voter list, land records, and father-grandfather's papers of NRC."
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"Constitutional body should not turn into party office," TMC slams ECI on
Updated : 9 months ago IST
Brien further stated that the EC was trying to bring back NRC in from the back door.
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AIMIM President Owaisi accuses Election Commission of quietly implementing
Updated : 9 months ago IST
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) President Asaduddin Owaisi accused the Election Commission of secretly implementing the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Bihar ahead of the upcoming state elections.
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"BJP can do anything through back door": SP chief Akhilesh Yadav supports
Updated : 9 months ago IST
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday supported West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's allegation that the Election Commission and the BJP could be using a backdoor to implement the NRC.
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Mamata Banerjee slams ECI, alleges youth in Bengal being targeted over vot
Updated : 9 months ago IST
She expressed strong reservations about a new declaration form introduced by the ECI, which requires the submission of parents' birth certificates for enrolling names in the voters' list.
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