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Citizenship List In Indian State Stokes Fears Of Deportation

The government has issued a draft citizenship list that leaves off some 4 million people who reportedly failed to produce valid documents.

Some 4 million people in India's northeastern state of Assam have been left off a draft national register of citizens after the government says they failed to show valid documents.

The draft register, which could become the first such update to Assam's citizenship list since 1951, comes amid what some see as a push by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu-nationalist

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