Month after NRC final list, Assam groups want 1951 as cut-off date not 1971

Publication of the final list of National Register of Citizens (NRC) was expected to end the decades-old issue of illegal immigrants in Assam.
But now several indigenous groups, want the NRC to have 1951 as the cut-off date to detect foreigners instead March 24, 1971.
Six years ago, the Supreme Court had ordered updating of the NRC, prepared in 1951 only for Assam, based on a petition by APW.
Over the past three decades, several organizations in Assam have been opposing the difference in 20 years between the cut-off date for Assam.
Incidentally, a petition by Assam Sanmilita Mahasangha (ASM), seeking 1951 as the cut-off date for updating NRC is pending in Supreme Court since 2014.

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