{"id":234651,"date":"2024-02-13T00:05:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T18:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=234651"},"modified":"2024-02-13T00:05:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T18:35:58","slug":"over-1-59-lakh-declared-as-foreigners-in-assam-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/02\/13\/over-1-59-lakh-declared-as-foreigners-in-assam-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 1.59 lakh declared as &#8216;foreigners&#8217; in Assam: CM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">GUWAHATI, 12 Feb: More than 1.59 lakh people have been declared as &#8216;foreigners&#8217; in Assam so far, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Monday.<br \/>\nHe said that another 96,000 have been marked as &#8216;doubtful&#8217; (D) voters.<br \/>\nSarma, who also holds the home portfolio, said that 100 foreigners&#8217; tribunals (FT), which deal with the citizenship issue of D-voters in the state, are currently functional in the state.<br \/>\nHe was responding to a question by opposition AIUDF legislator Aminul Islam in the assembly.<br \/>\nThe chief minister said that 1,59,353 people have been declared as foreigners by these tribunals till 31 December, 2023.<br \/>\nThe FTs have disposed of 3,37,186 cases till the end of last year and 96,149 cases are pending before various FTs, he added.<br \/>\nIn reply to another question from Congress MLA Sherman Ali Ahmed, Sarma said that, as per data, there are 96,987 D-voters in the state as of date.<br \/>\nHe said that a total of 41,275 D-voters are yet to receive FT notice as it is served after following due procedure and it takes time to observe all formalities. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUWAHATI, 12 Feb: More than 1.59 lakh people have been declared as &#8216;foreigners&#8217; in Assam so far, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Monday. He said that another 96,000 have been marked as &#8216;doubtful&#8217; (D) voters. Sarma, who also holds the home portfolio, said that 100 foreigners&#8217; tribunals (FT), which deal with the citizenship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-234651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}