Silchar: The Citizens' Rights Protection Co-ordination Committee, an umbrella organisation of 43 different groups/organisations in south Assam's Barak Valley, will hold two mass conventions in Hailakandi and Silchar on June 19 and 27 respectively regarding the National Register of Citizens (NRC).

Sadhan Purkayastha, one of the committee members, on Monday said the main objective of organising the conventions is to attract the attention of the government and create awareness among the common people.

"The names of lakhs of Bengalis, including a large number of people of the Barak Valley, will be left out of the NRC," Purkayastha said. He also added that a big threat is hovering over the citizens of this part of the state.

He said majority of the names of the citizens of Barak Valley were missing from the first draft of the NRC published on December 31, 2017, which apparently gave an impression that the citizenship of the people of this valley will be in danger.

According to the 2011 census, the population of Barak Valley was 36,24,599 (Cachar-17,36,617; Karimganj-12,28,686 and Hailakandi-6,59,296). In Karimganj and Hailakandi districts, Muslims constituted the majority of the population, while Hindus formed a bulk of the population in Cachar district, according to the census.

He demanded that the names of all the citizens of the valley be included in the updated NRC, or else it would lead to a massive furore.

K. Bhattacharjee, another member, echoed the same and pitched for the inclusion of the names of all the citizens of the valley in the NRC.

The convention in Hailakandi will be held at Matijuri at 3pm, while in Silchar it will be held at Narsingtala at 11am.

The Barak Upotyaka Banga Sahitya O Sanskriti Sammelan, a socio-cultural-literary organisation of the valley, recently expressed concern that the names of lakhs of Bengalis would be left out of the NRC.

Union Territory Demand Committee president Sanjit Debnath also suspected that the names of a lot of people of the valley would be missing from the NRC.

"Barak Valley has always been deprived of progress and development. Getting separated from Assam is the only way out for its overall development," he said.

North Karimganj MLA Kamalakhya Dey Purkayastha told The Telegraph that he, too, suspects that the names of lakhs of Bengali people would be missing from the NRC.

"The entire NRC process is being made complex by including a series of verifications. This has resulted in the suffering of common people, and is likely to result in a hue and cry in the state," he said.