In a bizarre incident, the granddaughter of the first Congress president of Assam, Chabilal Upadhyay, has been tagged as ‘D’ (doubtful) voter.
According to a report published byTOI,55-year-old Manju Devi lives at Chandmari area of Tezpur in Sonitpur district.
Manju Devi, a mother of two, is the granddaughter of freedom fighter Chabilal Upadhyay, who was the Assam’s first Congress president in 1921.
But even being a granddaughter of a freedom fighter, Manju devi was tagged as a ‘D’ (doubtful’) voter in 2005. She is yet to be freed from the tag.
It has been reported that neither the foreigners’ tribunal nor an RTI could provide any record to show why Manju Devi should be considered as a ‘D’ voter.
Manju Devi said the ordeal to prove herself as an Indian citizen has been painful.
The report quoted Manju devi as saying: “When you don’t know why you are being tagged as a ‘D’ voter, the mental torture increases. In the first list of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), my son and daughter were not included because of my ‘D’ voter tag. I came to a conclusion that it is because of utter negligence of the authorities that the problem remains unresolved even today.”