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Doubtful voters

  • November 17, 2021
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
  • Category: DPN Topics
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Doubtful voters

Subject – Polity

Context – NRC: only 1,032 doubtful cases referred for review

Concept –

  • D Voters is a category of voters in Assam whose citizenship has been doubtful (due to lack of citizenship credentials in form of supporting documents) or is under dispute.
  • Foreigner Tribunal set up under Foreigner Tribunals order 1964 determines once status as D voters and such persons can’t hold voter I-card.
  • Category was introduced in 1997 when the Election Commission of India (ECI) was revising the state’s voter list in the wake of huge immigration from Bangladesh.
  • While ‘D’ voters continue to remain on Assam’s electoral roll, they cannot vote in an election unless their case is decided by a Foreigners’ Tribunal.
  • They have not been defined in the Citizenship Act, 1955 or the Citizenship Rules of 2003.

To know about NRC, please refer September 2021 DPN.

Doubtful voters Polity

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