Riyazul Islam (L) whose name is excluded from the draft list of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), sits inside his house with his father in Dhubri district, in the northeastern state of Assam, India August 3, 2018. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
DHUBRI, India (Reuters) - Riyazul Islam says he had to produce family documents going back to 1951 to prove he was an Indian and not an illegal Bangladeshi immigrant. But a draft list of citizens released in July excluded him and his mother, among a total of about 4 million people left off.
A wiry 33-year-old living in the northeastern state of Assam, Islam says he and his mother have no further documents left to prove they are Indians, although his father and many others in his family have been included in the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
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