Assam’s only woman chief minister’s name is missing from the National Register of Citizens (NRC). Syeda Anowara Taimur, Currently residing in Australia, has been ailing for some years, but now plans to return home shortly (by the last week of August) to start the process of enlisting her and her family’s name in the citizens’ register of the state.
The former CM is said to have requested a relative to submit the application for her family’s inclusion in the NRC which probably had not been possible due to some reasons. However according to the NRC authorities, it hadn’t been possible to determine whether she and her family had applied for the process of inclusion since no legacy data of the former CM had been found available to them.
Taimur was the leader of the Indian National Congress party in Assam and was also a member of the All India Congress Committee (AICC). She was the chief minister of Assam from December 1980 to June 1981. She had served as a Rajya Sabha member in 1998.
Names of 40 lakh applicants living in Assam have been excluded out of the 3.29 crore people who had applied.
