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Sep 23, 2019

Watch | Why the NRC's Biggest Champion is Unhappy With its Outcome

The NGO Assam Public Works now wants a 100% re-verification of the final NRC.
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In 2009, a non-government organisation called the Assam Public Works (APW) filed a petition in the Supreme Court to “expel foreigners” from Assam. After the final NRC was released on August 31, the organisation, however, is dissatisfied with. It has sought a 100% re-verification of the people who have been included. The Wire‘s Meenakshi Tewari talks to the APW’s president Abhijeet Sharma.

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