 My take was completely to look at the objective situation in the National Register of Citizens Process at the ground and it was not with any agenda and actually we did not even have much information or knowledge systems to prejudice us so we did not carry any baggage and we went with completely open minds with open doors of perception and windows open windows of enlightenment and as we spoke across spectrum of people first in Guwahati, lawyers, activists, civil society groups, individuals, journalists, then we moved into Guwalpala district, Barpenan district, Koklajhar and Bangai Gau and we travelled inside the interiors of deep interior villages and to discover basically what is happening to the National Register of Citizens Process. While we came back on the last day we were able to meet the former twice Chief Minister Prahlamanta for a long discussion and with the former Chief Minister Taran Gowai also along with other intellectuals like Professor Hiran Gohan and Mr. Bora and other local intellectuals, lawyers, etc. journalists, editors and of course we met also Akhil Gugoi social activist in the end. Briefly let me tell you very simple let us not get into the complexity of the history of Assam because it's a pre-1947 history is a complex history of part of being greater Bengal with Dhaka as the capital and larger geographical mapping. So pre-1947 it was an open border and it was a different scenario of British administration, 1905 Bengal partition etc. we are going into that. Post-1947 also we are only going to 1971 that is the tripartite accord between the Assam Assum or Assam Student Union, the state Assam government and the Raju Gandhi's communist government Delhi which made 24th midnight or 24th August 1971 as a cut of date, 24th August 1985 actually the accord was signed and 24th March midnight 1971 cut of date that is before that date after that date anybody who comes is a foreigner that is I think the basic criteria on which the national register of citizens is operating and by large I think the spectrum of the civil society including the villagers and locals including Tharan Gugoi who said actually he started the NRC process and the process slowed down after there was massive protest in Barpeta on fudging of electoral lists and elimination of names from electoral lists and then there was a police firing and some three four people died during Mr. Tharan Gugoi's regime and then the process slowed down and more committees etc. were formed. The process actually began and was spearheaded and fast tracked by the BJP led government in which our AGP is in an alliance which came to power in 2018. Of course no human being is an no human being can be treated as you know as as outside in this world when everyone is part of this world and geographically you can be located somewhere to the other and migrations are a process which is a complex process which is for thousands of years has happened it is it will continue to happen when Bangladeshis are not only in India they are also in Pakistan they are also in South Africa they are all over the place and migrations across borders are something as as as transparent and as continuous as the infinite as changing of maps the maps also change continuously Bangladesh did not exist before 1971 it was East Pakistan and before 1947 the map was different so we are also situated here in a kind of human condition which is a which is part of the location of the human human being where does the human being what is the human beings residence on earth but that is a philosophical question here the simple question is that the NRC process has been activated and it has been activated through as the report says and we have tried to make a very balanced impartial objective report it is not based on it is not based on any you know a feeling of disharmony against energy whether the BJP government or Congress government we are not involved in the political party process here we're only involved in the in the in the in the tracking down of what is happening or the mapping of what is happening in the NRC project in the ground what we found through documentary evidence and through our own objective I think as a journalist I found several cases where the mother is elderly mother is in jail and the jail is also the detention camp there are six detention camps right now Koclajar has got a women's detention camp most of the district jails have been turned into detention camps and the people have no rights business rights they don't have fundamental rights that it is the under trials and like golf or a district jail we did go and found out some information but we were not allowed to go inside but then local sources have told us which we have quoted there are 239 foreign nationals are there within course or which 195 are D voters now don't get you know confused because D voter is basically doubtful voter a doubtful voter is that keep the foreign tribunal and the and the divisional bench of the High Court there's a divisional bench of the High Court which which is the next authority you can go after your petition is rejected in the foreigners tribunal petition means that you have to prove your identity in Assam no situation is that you have to prove your identity in rest of the country some article rule 4 in the citizen rules I don't have to prove my identity if somebody have to ask me that then they have to prove my identity here they have to if the onus is on the on the accused and and there are some 16 or documents which have to be given and and then then then that system all documents have to be ratified with a foreigner's tribunal and then the foreigners if you if you don't agree or you want to go to appeal you have to go to the High Court there's a divisional bench of Judge Ujjal Burya is there I heard that Ujjal Burya has been changed because the roster system was not being applied and there was a complaint that came in Guwahati High Court also the roster system should apply as it is should be as it was the demand of the four judges justices in the Supreme Court so yesterday we heard the roster system was changed because Ujjal Burya has been changed and our new judges come which is a very significant thing because there's a lot of pressure on Ujjal Burya as much as the foreigners tribunal because they were accusations and there are controversies there are there's fear there is trauma there's insecurity I will not give you a lot of examples I will give you a couple of examples for this I just tell you that we might have three adults sons in Jaipur village in Bharatpetha and whose mother is in a deportation in jail and a father a father was an Indian citizen the three sons are Indian citizens but the mother has been declared a devotee and devotee is not foreigner devotee is that some of the documents are not correct like your school's going certificate has your age some age difference is there between a middle school or small school there's some discrepancy in the panchayat certificate some little little old technical your village name has changed a lot of people's villages name change in Assam as you would know that because the Brahmaputra flows in a very fierce manner and there is a lot of erosion over history the villages disappear and even very good records disappear even documents disappear because if your village disappears and it floods many times documents disappear so many times people move from village to village and they have new villages so their social identity and geographical identity also changes so it's a very complex and difficult thing for NRC also we think it's a very gigantic difficult and complex process and so we are not here to pass a judgment on the NRC we are going to say we are only trying to say that there are anomalies which are happening on the ground like the mother's case like like Bakhar Ali's case which has been video recorded by news click of he met us in a highway and he came and he is an underground he's highly and he is his birth certificate says 1985 birthday he's forced to make his birth certificate sign that his birth is 1970 by the police under duress and he was forced to say that his villages Bangladesh where his villages were not Bangladesh and he was declared a foreigner right for ten years he would not have rights but his mother and brother were Indians right and he's a teacher in a government school then then the police forces into in a SP office the registrar office he's forced to sign those documents where his age is changed from 85 to 70 then he goes to appeal after the appeal they get so angry apparently so angry that they declare the mother and the brother also foreigner now all three of them are under hiding because they are under hiding and they met us in hiding and they vanished into the darkness but these are this is a case which we come to us we have to verify it we're not saying that is absolutely correct case so as reporters we would say reportedly or allegedly or the claim of Bakhar Ali but at similar many many cases we have found in many many places one brother Zakir Ali is in jail family in abject poverty literally nothing in the house they cut Suparis to live mother is crying all the time daughter is dropped out of school the village is also very poor and they are in Guarpara and and they don't know what to do because losing one's identity as a citizen is one of the losses we just cannot understand it's like something else it's like it's like your everything is gone you don't belong to this country you're a no man's land so I would just say very simply in brief that a kind of a crisis is brewing in which could lead to lakhs of people or thousands of people directly affected in which there are accusations that the foreign tribunal foreigners tribunal is not completely partial that the foreigners tribunal is not completely not biased that the foreigners tribunal is not completely efficient and that there are also accusations that evidence is being punched and that evidence D is being marked against people who have voted in the past and who have voted in the future or who might vote in the future whose parents have voted your father grandfather has voted etc and it's a very difficult thing to trace all documents in some of the land documents have vanished one of the most significant things which you must notice there and I will conclude the best is that condition of women largely women are getting affected because both it's a lot let us think that let us let us accept the fact that people are getting directly impacted on Bengali speaking religious and linguistic minorities and there's no communal angle to it it is just that they are being impacted about Bengali speaking the tribals of Rajbongshis for the original inhabitants and the Rajbongshis whose language is a little Bangladeshi in their accent the Aomia also they speak is a little Bangladeshi accent and there's a language synthesis also in local level and there's a lot of differences of language also because Assam is a very complex demographically complex culturally very complex state and also it has been it has gone through impact of migration over the years before 47 of course 1947 71 war and a lot of people were given shelter and let us also accept the fact that most of India welcomed them in 71 and it was a war which India participated and all of us paid five paisa tax on postcards and there was a disease called Joy Bangla which was the inflammation of eyes where we used to take locula there was one locula eye drop and all over the country people were having eye solid eyes but nobody felt bad that Bangladeshis are here because 71 we accepted the Bangladeshis as you know as as neighbors or as part of our own geographical entities in the subcontinent before partition so women women are having great problems because one villages change more many of them because of patriarchal society anyway so they don't have birth certificates many of them don't have school certificates because they have not gone to school many of them don't even have married certificates their names change from say Khatum to Begum or after death to Beva huh or the villages change because they get married or or or their villages disappear because of erosion so when they go to testify they really don't have great documents to prove themselves so they go to the panchayat and the panchayat is the very has got legislative powers and gives a certificate according to which the village elders the neighbors the local post office man the local cop everyone will be there so yeah this girl was here she studied here we have seen her since childhood she got married here we went to her marriage that is how so much of illumination in India has done the illuminators go door to door and illuminators go to the village husband and they get a assessment key this is the village there these are people seven people in the family he's head of the family he's she's got married gone away etc or the village principal will come her she's studying her father will say he's my daughter she's my daughter so now women are really facing a lot of problem there and the huge number of women are directly implanted some even Pratik Hajjala the IS officer who has been appointed as a model officer by Supreme Court it has said that he's about a 40-50 thousand people directly employed people are saying they could move into tens of thousands and many many women are in prison one pregnant woman was put in prison whose entire family are is Indian and in in in and she she was put in prison and she was pregnant and then she came out because High Court allowed her to have a delivery and she's right now in bail in complete uncertainty uncertainty anytime she can her case is now in the Supreme Court so it's a kind of a very emotional social crisis combined with the fact that the NRC is a genuine process to identify second Hindi with Dood Ka Dood or Panika Pani kid you've identified who's a foreigner who is not a foreigner and then there is no logical basis to not deny this logic because there is a problem in Kashi in Assam and a lot of us means people and also movement had the problem that key that demographically they are getting isolated culturally they're getting dominated etc. and there is a local angst also so we have to take into consideration in a plurals democratic secular society all viewpoints so in that you point we have to take that you point that the fact that can oppose 97 71 if there are foreigners they should go back but the fact is that the NRC being such a gigantic complex and difficult task and the fact that the BJP government is there and the fact that the BJP government to many eyes and to locals and as a journalist I can say it is derived from an agenda and there seems to be an agenda and it is a agenda which locals feel is happening of say partisan behavior or prejudice or bias in which both Bengali Hindus and Bengali Muslims are getting involved in which genuine citizens might get directly impacted or in which genuine Indians might get you know emotionally and socially and politically isolated and the rights fundamental rights can be taken away which Taran Gowai has also said and which are local intellectuals are feeling I think there is a crisis situation there and one must look at it so this report is kind of a gateway to that crisis not a solution to the crisis but a gateway to the crisis in the sense in mainstream India people are not even thinking about it or talking about it that in Assam there might be a serious kind of a trauma fear mass insecurity developing thank you