The top U.N. refugee official has urged India to ensure that no one is left stateless by the exclusion of over 19 lakh people from a citizenship list in Assam.
Filippo Grandi, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, voiced his concern in a statement issued on Sunday in Geneva. He said that “any process that could leave large numbers of people without a nationality would be an enormous blow to global efforts to eradicate statelessness.”
About 31.1 million people were included on the list, according to a statement on Saturday from Assam’s government, leaving out 1.9 million.
Published - September 01, 2019 03:29 pm IST
