In the last few years, the Kafkaesque process of determining citizenship has created unprecedented stress and apprehension in millions of people in Assam. From the state election commission marking D-voter arbitrarily, to possible incarceration in Detention Camps, non transparent working of Foreigner Tribunals and political and bureaucratic meddling in the NRC process, the crisis of citizenship is now killing people. CJP is one of the few organisations who are active across Assam, helping genuine Indian citizens avoid a ‘civil death’.

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