Guwahati, July 18: Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi today used an Id gathering to obliquely reiterate that he would continue pushing for inclusion of voter lists from 1985 to 2014 as additional documents to be submitted by an applicant to get enlisted in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) being updated in the state.

Addressing a massive gathering at the Hijubari Idgah ground here this morning, Gogoi said steps were being taken to ensure that no genuine Indian citizen was harassed during the update. He said he would try and get the voter list included as an additional document.

Political observers said it was another attempt by Gogoi to reassure (those neither possessing any of the 12 admissible documents nor figuring in the 1951 NRC or voter list till 1971) that he had not given up on his government's efforts to convince the Supreme Court to get the voter list included as an additional document. The court is monitoring the update.

Gogoi had said yesterday that Dispur would soon file an "interim application" in the Supreme Court to consider all voter lists from 1985 to 2014 as additional documents for the ongoing update of 1951 NRC.

Gogoi said: "Since the Supreme Court has not accepted our affidavit on the issue, we will file an interim document before the court considering the urgency of the issue. By making such plea before the apex court, my government is not deviating from the modalities prepared to update the NRC."

He went on to add: "All voter lists from 1985 have been prepared on the basis of 1971 electoral rolls. This is not my observation. It is the job done by the Election Commission. So, what is wrong on the part of the government to request the Supreme Court to consider all voter lists from 1985 to 2014 as additional or supporting documents for the NRC update? It is only the Congress party which is advocating 1971 as the cut-off year for the NRC update and all other issues to solve the vexed illegal migrants problem in the state."

So far only 18 per cent households in Assam filed applications for inclusion in the NRC.