With the Supreme Court granting a month-long extension to the final NRC deadline, the state of Assam is witnessing a rush hour. Ahead of August 31, when the final list will be published, applicants to the NRC have been pushed to chaos with thousands attending court hearings to prove their citizenship.
On August 2, the process of re-summoning even led to a fatal accident when a bus carrying 55 people to their NRC hearing centre crashed into an oil tanker. Thirty people suffered burn injuries in the mishap. This comes after the BJP-led state government released district-wise data of people excluded from the NRC.