08-11-2005, 07:30 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Calcutta, Aug. 10: Over 90 per cent of people in two areas in Murshidabad do not have any document prescribed by the government to prove their nationality, according to an exercise sponsored by the Centre.
The startling piece of statistics has emerged from a pilot project commissioned by the Registrar General of India in Murshidabad, the border district that is often sucked into controversies over illegal immigration â one of the most contentious issues in Bengal and several parts of the country.
At first glance, the revelation seems to confirm what critics of the Left Front government have been alleging â that the state machinery has papered over the existence of a huge mass of populace which does not belong to the country but has been allowed to stay on as a captive votebank.
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The startling piece of statistics has emerged from a pilot project commissioned by the Registrar General of India in Murshidabad, the border district that is often sucked into controversies over illegal immigration â one of the most contentious issues in Bengal and several parts of the country.
At first glance, the revelation seems to confirm what critics of the Left Front government have been alleging â that the state machinery has papered over the existence of a huge mass of populace which does not belong to the country but has been allowed to stay on as a captive votebank.
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