Guwahati: The All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) on Saturday alleged that the BJP-led state government is planning to drop the names of around 40 lakh minorities from the final draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), scheduled to be published this month.

"For the past few days, we have been seeing that whenever the issue of Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, is raised, all BJP legislators urge people to wait until the publication of the NRC final draft. It is a conspiracy by which the state government has planned to drop the names of around 40 lakh minority people, who are legal citizens, from the NRC. It is a way to mobilise support for the bill. If such a large number of illegal Muslims are detected in the state, people will automatically support the bill," AIUDF general secretary Aminul Islam said.

Citing two notifications issued by NRC state coordinator Prateek Hajela to all deputy commissioners of Assam on May 1 and 2, Islam alleged that the state government had violated the Supreme Court ruling over the NRC update process.

"Earlier the Supreme Court had clearly said that no one can interfere in the NRC update process. But now the BJP is trying to manipulate the NRC update process through its own way which will affect a large number of Assam's minority people," he said.

On May 1, Hajela, through a notice had said court affidavits, village head certificates, private school or college certificates, birth certificates, issued by authorities other than health department, village panchayat, lat mandal and circle officer certificates submitted by men and unmarried women, birth certificates with delayed registration cannot be considered legally admissible for NRC.

In the same notice, he had also asked to take extra caution in case of immunisation record, ration card, refugee registration certificate or citizenship certificate, record of 1951 NRC, electoral rolls up to the midnight of March 24, 1971.

In another notice issued on May 2, the NRC coordinator had directed not to include the names of siblings of a person detected as an illegal citizen.

"The names of a lot of minority people will be dropped from the NRC by those two notices. It is a harassment. We have already moved the Supreme Court against the notices," Islam said.

Hajela said, "Those two notices had been issued based on the apex court's direction. The whole process of NRC update is going on under the Supreme Court's supervision and we are just implementing its order. So if anyone has any problem, they should move court."