Year later, NRC in limbo but those out of it paying the price — passports to marriage

At an NRC centre in Guwahati. (Express file photoC)

In March, Shahjahan Ali Ahmed, in his early 30s and a social activist in Assam’s Barpeta and Baksa districts, filed his nomination as a candidate of the United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL) in the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) elections.

Since then, however, local workers of the ruling Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) have posted a barrage of comments on social media deriding the candidate. “His name is not in NRC, how can this problematic man be the UPPL’s candidate?” read one comment.

Ahmed and 29 other members of his family did not find a place in the final