Former BJP MLA Shiladitya Dev has reignited the controversy surrounding Assam’s National Register of Citizens (NRC), alleging large-scale irregularities and inclusion of foreign nationals in the state’s voter list.

Speaking to reporters in Guwahati, Dev said, “The voter list in Assam is not correct. We have converted 80 lakh Bangladeshi Muslims or East Pakistani Muslims into Indian citizens. The NRC failed to detect them.”

He claimed that the 2019 NRC, published under Supreme Court supervision, was “deeply flawed” and did not reflect ground realities. As an example, Dev mentioned Saifur Rehman Talukdar, alleging that individuals like him were “wrongly included” despite questionable eligibility.

“The NRC in Assam is full of mistakes,” Dev said citing an example, “If names like Saifur Reh

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